One of the key challenges facing innovative small and medium enterprises is customer acquisition. This is especially a constraint in less populated countries like those in the Western Balkans, where domestic...
This paper assesses the vulnerability of credit guarantee schemes to the physical and transition risks related to climate change. Based on unique sectoral and spatial data from 29 European credit guarantee...
This technical note is structured in the following manner. Section two provides an overview of the main barriers and frictions that SMEs face to access finance. Section three explores how digitization...
The training program aims to assist banks and regulators to assess the potential benefits of targeting the SME sector, helping banks build or expand their SME business offerings. The training sessions...
Small and medium sized enterprises are core to the economy of Georgia and will be central to building a robust and inclusive recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. SMEs represent 99.7 percent of active enterprises...
What is the future of SME banking? In IFC’s inaugural SME business banking survey, we asked the heads of SME Banking operations serving small businesses around the world. The online survey launched in...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contribute significantly to jobs and output creation, and are engines of economic growth worldwide. However, many studies have found that SMEs find it difficult to obtain...
This program document for the Second Capital Market Development and Small and Medium-Size Enterprise Finance Development Policy Loan Project has four pillars as follows : (i) Pillar A - Improve access...
The Mid-Term Review (MTR) evaluates the World Bank Group's (WBG) Vietnam Debt Resolution Program (Vietnam DR) activities and results from September 17, 2013 to June 30, 2016. The objective of the Vietnam...
