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Private sector development and policy actions in Timor-Leste : lessons from a business mapping survey

Shinozaki, Shigehiro - 2026

This paper empirically investigates what drives the growth of private businesses in Timor-Leste and the policy actions needed to facilitate growth amid global uncertainty, especially for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). It uses the linear probability model (LPM) to identify...

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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

literature and the presence of the SME finance gap in developing economies, this research investigates the impact of ESG … in the fields of banking, venture capital, angel investing, SME ownership or management, and ESG consulting were …

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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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Digital infrastructure, SME e-commerce, and economic growth : evidence from China's platform economy

Hao, Tengyue; Rasiah, Rajah; Mustafa, Sohaib - In: Economies : open access journal 14 (2026) 2, pp. 1-34

SME-led e-commerce remains limited. Drawing on the Resource-Based View, this study examines how SME digitalization … show that SME digitalization, supply-chain efficiency, mobile payment penetration, tech-driven employment growth, platform …-point increase in SME digitalization is associated with approximately 0.3-percentage-point higher regional GDP growth, while a 10 …

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Credit guarantee schemes and MSME financing in Kenya : a firm - level analysis

Muli, Anthony; Ndwiga, David; Agung, Raphael; Njoroge, … - 2026

The study seeks to examine the effects of credit guarantee schemes on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) lending. Specifically, the paper examined the performance of a specified credit guarantee scheme, effect of the credit guarantee scheme on MSME loan default probability and how...

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Agile4ALL - implementation of an agile HR pilot in a tourism SME in Algarve

Bento, Diogo Emanuel Matias; Contreiras, Joaquim Pinto; … - In: Journal of tourism, sustainability and well-being 14 (2026) 1, pp. 55-72

This human resources management project was carried out by the University of the Algarve to apply an innovative vision of agile practices to the hospitality and tourism sector. Recently, agile human resources have attracted increasing interest among professionals. Starting with the Agile...

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Set-aside auctions and small businesses' participation in public procurement : an empirical analysis

Shagbazian, Gegam; Valbonesi, Paola; Tkachenko, Andrey; … - In: Applied economics 58 (2026) 5, pp. 889-903

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Interpretable multi-model framework for early warning of SME loan delinquency

Akhmetova, Ardak; Shayakhmetova, Assem; Abdurakhmanov, … - In: Risks : open access journal 14 (2026) 2, pp. 1-15

The rapid expansion of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending has intensified the need for accurate and …

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Closing the SME emissions data gap

Schoenauer, Anne; Trompke, Tilman - 2026

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