Recognizing on one hand the importance of the MSE sector for growth and development of economies in the Pacific region and on the other, the financing constraints of the sector, we survey a group of MSEs in a Pacific island country and find that they may particularly be constrained by banks'...

This study fills a huge gap in the literature by examining the impacts of microfinance, and financial and social capital on the performance of microenterprises in the case of Indonesia. The ordered probit results of the data collected via a survey of respondents shows a negative relationship...

Fiji's thirty-five year old stock market remains persistently small and inactive but the state's drive to retain and develop it remains equally unwavering. Numerous strategies have been tried and tested with little attention however to the issue of ‘small scale'. Inspired by the increasing...