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role of women in rural entrepreneurship. The fourth chapter analyzes enterprise dynamics: start-up, closure, and growth …
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Bolivia's informal sector is the largest in Latin America, by many definitions and measures. Bolivia's high informality rate has been blamed on many factors including the burden of regulation, the weakness of public institutions, and the lack of perceived benefits to being formal. The high level...
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Peru is favored by a stable and growing economy and the availability of indigenous sources of energy for electricity generation, hydro and natural gas. Installed capacity in Peru in 2006 was 6658 MW, of which 48 percent was hydro-based. However, regarding new investment in generation, there is...
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This report examines the key challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Kyrgyz Republic, in an … and Medium Enterprises in the Kyrgyz Republic is the first survey of the investment climate in the Kyrgyz Republic … growth, resulting in higher employment and reducing poverty. Data contained in the Survey provide a basis on which the most …
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The sector of small and medium-sized enterprises (hereinafter SMEs) represent an increasingly important segment of … mutual cooperation and linking. Because SMEs have an important role in the economic development of each country, it is … procurements merge at all levels (national and local), special attention should be paid to get SMEs more closely involved in the …
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. The definition of commercial enterprises also includes small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The focus of this report …
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Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading cause of global warming. Forest loss disrupts ecosystem services, depletes biodiversity, and ultimately undermines the fulfillment of basic human rights. The mining sector is the fourth largest driver of deforestation after agriculture,...
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frictions that SMEs face to access finance. Section three explores how digitization is an enabler for SME finance and how … highlighted. Section four analyzes how the providers of these fintech solutions for SMEs impact traditional banks, financial … on the use of digital financial products for SMEs. Section five then addresses some of the key risks and challenges …
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analyzes opportunities and challenges for Malaysian SMEs to better leverage digital tools and platforms to increase their … diagnostic presenting the extent of digitalization and use of digital platforms among SMEs in traditional sectors, and the … constraints that SMEs still face to digitalize; (ii) an institutional and policy mapping reviewing the government of Malaysia …
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the Leone. Small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) can be engines of economic growth and job creation,under the right … circumstances. Currently, in Sierra Leone, SMEs (along with micro-enterprises) provide livelihoods to approximately 70 percent of … the population and represent over 90 percent of the domestic private sector. Access to finance for SMEs and digital …
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