The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … in health, education, and the environment. Both estimates yield a figure in the range of $40-$70 billion in additional … health or education and related outcomes, or the relationship between investment and growth, the sensitivity of the results …

interested in serving SMEs, small and niche banks have an advantage in doing so because they can overcome SME opaqueness through … relationship lending. This paper shows that there is a gap between this view and what banks actually do. Banks perceive SMEs as a … core and strategic business and seem well positioned to expand their links with SMEs. The recent intensification of bank …

enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment to be highly profitable, but perceive … macroeconomic instability in developing countries and competition in developed countries as the main obstacles. To serve SMEs banks … there are some differences in SMEs financing across government, private, and foreign-owned banks - with the latter being …