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South Africa's post-apartheid microcredit-driven calamity: Comparing 'developmental' to 'anti-developmental' local financial models

Bateman, Milford - Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale … - 2014

Microcredit was once universally lauded in international development community circles as a 'magic bullet'. Using the example of South Africa, this paper shows that microcredit has actually been an 'anti-developmental' local financial model, and one of the most calamitous financial sector...

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Credit Appraisal Procedure of SME Loan: An Empirical Investigation on Selected Private Commercial Banks in Bangladesh

Florin, Narzia - In: Journal of Applied Management and Investments 3 (2014) 4, pp. 193-200

services. The present study intends to investigate the various aspects of the credit appraisal procedure of SME loan by private …

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AN OVER VIEW OF THE BOOK INDUSTRY IN ROMANIA

MACARIE, FELICIA CORNELIA - In: JOURNAL STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI NEGOTIA (2007)

enterprises (SME). This contemporary truth is accepted by the majority of economics specialists. In a recent research “The socio … (428 persons from the SME leadership with employees from 0 to 250) are aware of the fact that the SMEs are not ready to … Commission (EC) initiated a new policy document of the SME published in 11.11.2005 named “The Implementation of the Common …

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A CHARACTHERIZATION OF PORTUGUESE SME COMPARING EUROPEAN UNION - CASE STUDY ABOUT SETÚBAL REGION

MARTINS RODRIGUES, JORGE JOSE; GOMES VALENTE DA COSTA, … - In: JOURNAL STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI NEGOTIA (2007)

Portuguese SME for the domestic economy, referring their social and economic role, as well its weight in Gross Domestic Product … (SME) comparing its performance indicators with the reference indicators of EU’s SME. The higher education institution … to analyse an important stakeholder cluster of our community – the SME. We work with a significant sample of regional SME …

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Business Benefits, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in SME Trough Implementing and Combining ISO 14000 with ISO 26000

Bostan, Ionel; Artene, Alin Emanuel - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XII (2012) 1, pp. 819-822

The negative effects of the global crisis can be seen on SME’s because of their size and their difficulty to access … finance. SME’s need to be aware of the impact that their activities have on the environment which will turn into a great … opportunity to explore the economic advantages that emerges from implementing an environmental management system. If an SME has …

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Balancing European SME Managers’ Training Contents: Perceived Importance & Training Needs

Morgado, Leonel; Varajão, João; Dominguez, Caroline; … - In: Business Systems Research 5 (2014) 2, pp. 4-22

programs for European SME managers. Methods/Approach: In six European countries a survey focusing on SME managers’ views on the … research could help training institutions to develop courses aimed at SME managers. The balancing approach proved to be an …

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Credit rationing and relationship lending. Does firm size matter?

Cenni, Stefano; Monferrà, Stefano; Salotti, Valentina; … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 53 (2015) C, pp. 249-265

Using survey based data, we investigate factors influencing credit rationing within a bank-based financial system. We show that rationing depends on various dimensions of the firm-bank relationships and that the effects of relationship lending on rationing are not identical for different firm...

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DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. THE CASE OF ROMANIA

IUHASZ, GIOVANA; DORIN, COSMA - In: Annals - Economy Series 1I (2015) January, pp. 69-75

investors. Dominated by growth and industrialization, but lacking macroeconomic indicator stability or sufficiently mature …

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ASSESSMENT OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT IN ROMANIA DURING 2013-2014

ALINA, NAFTANAILA CRISTINA; VIORICA, BRAGA; GEORGETA, … - In: Annals - Economy Series 1I (2015) January, pp. 245-249

Small and medium enterprises contribute significantly to achieve the fundamental objectives of any national economy. They play an important role in the economy for reasons such as: to encourage innovation and flexibility; to integrate easily into a regional industrial network, which contributes...

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CERTIFICATION PROCESS IN QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN SME'S BORDER REGION OF CD. JUAREZ, CHIH. MEXICO AS A COMPETITIVE STRATEGY

Contreras, Oscar Alejandro Rodarte; Silva, Francisco … - In: Revista Global de Negocios 1 (2013) 2, pp. 117-127

competitiveness strategies present within the branch of SME's in the literature together with the application of a questionnaire that … supply chain. We propose a business strategy that generates higher performance for SME's to fulfill critical requirements of …

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