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World Bank Group - 2020

This note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a … major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can: (1 …

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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

This report provides a baseline analysis of the status of access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) with a particular focus on women entrepreneur' ability and constraints in accessing finance in order to develop and grow their businesses. It is based on a...

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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 …, the literature review helped identify examples of initiatives focused on linking lead firms and agro-processing SMEs in 56 …

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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

Despite being the backbone of the Albanian economy, micro, small and medium sized enterprises(MSMEs) face difficulties in accessing finance which impedes their growth. MSMEs in Albania aresignificant contributors to the economy. In 2016, MSMEs comprised 99.9 percent of active enterprises and 81...

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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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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 … constraint in advanced economies, where financing gaps for SMEs were exacerbated by the 2008-2009 financial and economic crisis …

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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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