faced by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Nepal, a landlocked least developed country, in … firm-level information, with qualitative primary data. It finds that Nepal lacks a concrete policy framework for SMEs, let … tailored to, the needs of SMEs. Incentives granted in one legislation being repealed through another has created policy …

This paper analyses the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Afghan economy; the challenges of developing … SMEs in an infant market economy; how SMEs are coping with the military transition and declining aide. The paper also looks … at the role of SMEs in Afghanistan's trade with Central Asia and the hurdles impeding growth of that trade. The paper …

European Structural Funds. As SMEs are key elements of competitiveness, their support through various subsidy programmes is … important. However, as our research shows, the distribution of funds among SMEs is highly unequal. While some SMEs are very …