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Rapid Review of Water Knowledge for Pacific Small Islands Developing States

World Bank Group - 2018

The rapid review confirms that Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are socially, culturally, and environmentally diverse, with some features in common, and which collectively make them unique to other regions of the world: Small island countries have uniquely fragile water resources...

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Capital Markets and SMEs in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies : Can They Go the Distance?

World Bank Group - 2020

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face significant financing gaps that stifle innovation and economic growth. The credit gap alone is estimated at dollar 4.5 trillion as of 2017 for emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) only. Bank financing has been the traditional source of...

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Innovation in Electronic Payment Adoption : The Case of Small Retailers

World Bank Group - 2016

This report aims to deepen the understanding of barriers to and incentives for the acceptance and use of electronic payments, from the perspective of micro, small and medium retailers (merchants). Developing and accelerating acceptance of electronic payments by these merchants is essential to...

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Access to Finance for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Focus on Gender : A Survey Report

World Bank Group - 2018

develop and grow their businesses. It is based on a nationally representative survey of 542 enterprises conducted in Bosnia … and Herzegovina (BiH) between September 2016 and February 2017. The survey is a continuation of the ongoing work on access … Project. The objective of the survey is to further analyze the demand side constraints to private sector growth and enterprise …

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Partnership for Growth : Linking Large Firms and Agro-Processing SMEs

World Bank Group - 2018

Partnership for growth: linking large firms and agro-processing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) presents lessons learned from various models utilized by public and private sector programs to stimulate the growth of agro-processing SMEs through linkages to larger firms in developing...

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Vietnam Enhancing Enterprise Competitiveness and SME Linkages : Lessons from International and National Experience

World Bank Group - 2017

Boosting productivity growth, especially that of the domestic private sector, is a key priority of Vietnam. The country has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and entering global value chains (GVCs). Most local firms, however, are small and only serve the domestic...

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Albania MSME Finance for Growth Assessment

World Bank Group - 2018

enterprise development and competitiveness after tax rates and corruption. This is in line with a recent EC survey which found …

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Saving Entrepreneurs, Saving Enterprises : Proposals on the Treatment of MSME Insolvency

World Bank Group - 2018

Micro and small enterprise (MSME) insolvency is particularly likely to impact not only the business, but also the personal and family life of the owner-operator(s) of such businesses, raising particular concerns that apply much less frequently in the context of corporate insolvency. This report...

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Toolkit for Impact Evaluation of Public Credit Guarantee Schemes for SMEs

World Bank Group - 2018

Limited access to finance, particularly bank credit, is a long-standing hurdle for Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs), with varying severity of financing constraints across countries. SMEs face higher transaction costs and higher risk premiums since they are typically more opaque and have less...

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Evaluating the Potential of Container-Based Sanitation : x-runner in Lima, Peru

World Bank Group - 2019

This case study examines the container-based sanitation (CBS) service provided by x-runner in the low-income formal/informal settlements in peri-urban Lima. x-runner provides a safe sanitation chain in poor nonsewered neighborhoods in the hills of the outskirts of southwest Lima for a population...

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