corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68 …-2014, we investigate whether the level of corruption affects their demand for bank loans. Overall, we find that the degree of … corruption seems to play a role in the applications for bank loans when small firms are under investigation. Interestingly …

role played by corruption and provincial institutions in determining a company’s capital structure in Vietnam’s legal … environment. Contrasting to the majority of previous studies, the results show that corruption has an insignificant influence on a … company’s bank loans, consistent with institutional theory. However, the role of corruption is different for types of various …

nongovernment organizations, local government units, institutions such as the Development Bank of the Philippines, the Land Bank of … the Philippines, the Industrial Guarantee and Loan Fund, and other organizations. In this way, it is a public …

The Philippines, a country of great promise in the 1950s, has greatly lagged behind many other Asian countries. Between … that possess the capacity lack the focus. Despite recent liberalization efforts, policymakers in the Philippines, unlike … Philippines and analyzed in terms of outreach to the poor, resource mobilization, viability and sustainability: six credit NGOs …

enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines. In particular, we determined whether an SME's firm characteristics are correlated to the … associated with a lower predicted probability of being credit-constrained for the average SME in our sample. However, with the … average SME is quasi-constrained. This implies that the firm characteristics that are significant in accessing finance solely …

and introducing nontraditional approach to SME lending would also be important along with trainings and capacity …