ease access to finance in low-income countries. Second, there is no evidence that smaller institutions are better in … providing access to finance. To the contrary, larger specialized lenders and larger banks might actually ease small firms …

constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world …, within Africa across countries, and across different groups of firms. It relates firms' access to finance to firm and banking …

Using data from a survey of 91 banks in 45 countries, the authors characterize bank financing to small and medium …

While the theoretical and empirical finance literature has focused almost exclusively on enterprise credit, about half … effect of finance on growth in high-income countries. In addition, countries with a lower share of manufacturing, a higher …