flagship product by the World Bank and IFC that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More …

"The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa …

"This paper studies the factors banks perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing small and medium enterprises (SMEs …), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper … business, SMEs have become a strategic segment for most banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs …

business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a …

SMEs seem to be very active in creating jobs in recent years. This suggests that a new type of firm is emerging that is …

, including results based on a survey of small and medium-scale private firms, shows that alternative financing channels provide …

and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It finds that SMEs in SSA get around market failures and lack of formal … consequences for market participation of "outsiders," such as indigenous African SMEs. This is indicated through the determinants …