Search Results - subject:"FINANCING OBSTACLES"

Financing Obstacles of Bangladeshi Firms: Evidence from Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis Periods

AFANDI, Elvin; KERMANI, Majid - In: Asian Economic and Financial Review 4 (2014) 9, pp. 1158-1174

crisis affected the financing obstacles across the firms in Bangladesh. We find that the small, domestically owned … enterprises and firms with small capacity utilization are facing higher financing obstacles than other firms. There is … statistically significant increase in financing obstacles of Bangladeshi firms, which can perhaps be explained by the ?implicit? or …

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Obstacles to bank financing of micro and small enterprises: empirical evidence from the Pacific with some policy implications

Sharma, Parmendra; Gounder, Neelesh - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 19 (2012) 2, pp. 49-75

In recognizing on one hand the importance of the micro and small enterprise (MSE) sector for the growth and development of economies in the Pacific subregion and on the other, the financing constraints of the sector, the authors surveyed a group of MSEs in a Pacific island country and found that...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009

This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...

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How Important Are Financing Constraints? The Role of Finance in the Business Environment

Ayyagari, Meghana; Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Maksimovic, … - In: The World Bank Economic Review 22 (2008) 3, pp. 483-516

What role does the business environment play in promoting or restraining firm growth? Recent literature points to a number of factors as obstacles to growth. Inefficient functioning of financial markets, inadequate security and enforcement of property rights, poor provision of infrastructure,...

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