productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …

barriers for agriculture value chain financing. The paper discusses key barriers to SMEs' access to finance and suggests …

The current study examines the impact of GVCs on the performance of SMEs in Uva and central provinces of Sri Lanka … success factors in relation to linking SMEs with GVCs are also identified. A total of 329 SMEs in both provinces were surveyed … analysis found that SMEs that are linked with GVCs have a higher level of profit than those that are not. Apart from the direct …

offering skills training and in hiring workers with more formal education. Drawing on a dataset of enterprises in five Asian … countries, we find major size-based differences in education and training. While smaller firms train less, they also are less …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their growth stage reach the point where, on the one hand, personal …, the development of a sound credit guarantee scheme will be an important step in filling the financing gap of SMEs. We … investigate the situation of the credit guarantee scheme for SMEs in Iran by using the available data and interviews with …

This paper presents targeted government policies for promoting training in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to … increase their contributions to economic development. It first discusses the role of SMEs in country development and the … special challenges facing SMEs in developing human resources. It then surveys some innovative, targeted policies for promoting …

performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and … 696 Pakistani SMEs from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, and bivariate probit estimation techniques were used. The … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …