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The Next Frontier in SME Ratings : Improving Access to Credit and Business Opportunities for the World's Largest Business Segment

Pillay, Saveshen - 2024

Chapter 1- Introduction -- Chapter 2- An Overview of The SME Industry -- Chapter 3- An Introduction to the “SME Rating”, And Specific “SME Credit Rating” Concepts -- Chapter 4- The benefits of SME ratings -- Chapter 5- An Introduction to The Public Sector Model -- Chapter 6- Practical...

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Unintended consequences of business digitalization among MSMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the Philippines

Oikawa, Keita; Iwasaki, Fusanori; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - 2025

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic profoundly impacted people's lives, social activities, and businesses. It particularly affected micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), which account for the vast majority of firms and most of the labor force. Compared to larger firms,...

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Designing a country's small and medium-sized enterprise development index using firm-level data: The case of Thailand

Shinozaki, Shigehiro; Miyakawa, Daisuke - 2025

Understanding the business environment and structural issues that limit growth is critical when designing an effective national policy framework for private sector development-especially for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Given the limited MSME data available, this paper...

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Impact of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) practices in Bulgarian SMEs access to finance

Manolov, Mladen; Berrones-Flemmig, Claudia Nelly - 2025

relating to its access to finance (Jang et al., 2020; Srivastava et al., 2022; Albuquerque et al., 2019; Friede et al. 2015 … economies (World Bank, 2019; PwC, 2021). Given the positive impact of ESG on companies access to finance as found in existing … practices on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises access to finance in the context of Bulgaria. An overview of current and planned …

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Access to finance for SMEs in Albania under monetary tightening

Dushku, Elona - 2025

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are vital to Albania's economy but face significant financing challenges amid monetary tightening. Utilizing firm-level data from 2022-2023, this study documents that the abrupt interest rate increases in 2022 prompted a rise in alternative financing...

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