Business support for small and medium enterprises in low- and middle-income countries

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caio Piza ◽  
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Tulio Cravo ◽  
Linnet Taylor ◽  
Lauro Gonzalez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Business Support ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Low And Middle Income

scholarly journals Food Systems After Covid-19

IDS Bulletin ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayako Ebata ◽  
Nicholas Nisbett ◽  
Stuart Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Nutrition Security ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Local Innovation Systems

Measures to slow down the spread of Covid-19 have had profound effects on the food and nutrition security of poor and marginalised households and communities. This article provides an overview of the effects of Covid-19 on food systems across low- and middle-income countries using resilience and political economy lenses, before proposing approaches to build back resilient and equitable food systems. First, future interventions need to target structural issues that limit people’s agency in accessing nutritious and diverse food and production capital. Second, local innovation systems and institutions require investment to create a market environment that benefits domestic (small and medium) enterprises and agri‑food supply chain workers without jeopardising the environment. Third, interventions need to be informed by a diverse set of opinions that include the voices of the most marginalised.

scholarly journals FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION AND COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES – EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHEAST ASIAN LOWER AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYEN NGOC THUY VY ◽  
NGUYEN THI PHUONG DUNG ◽  
NGUYEN KIM QUOC TRUNG
Keyword(s):  
Financial Liberalization ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
External Finance ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Surveys ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Small and medium enterprise (SME) sector is the main motivation for economic growth in developing countries. However, SMEs encounter different challenges in their activities. One of the biggest obstacles facing SMEs is the constraint on their accessibility to external finance due to the lack of collateral. Financial liberalization, through their impact on credit market structure, may affect SMEs’ dependence on collateral in accessing external finance. The main purpose of this research is to examine the influence of financial liberalization on collateral requirements of SMEs in South-East Asian lower and middle income countries including Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines. To be specific, the author uses Probit and Tobit regression with Enterprise Surveys Data of World Bank in 2009 and 2015 to evaluate the effect of financial liberalization on the incidence of collateral loans and the level of collateral requirements. In addition to financial liberalization - our main explanatory variable, we control other factors which may affect SMEs’ collateral requirements such as country and firm characteristics. The main result shows that financial liberalization increases the likelihood of collateral requirements.

Some Conditions for Task Shifting in Low and Middle-Income Countries

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joop de Jong ◽  
Mark Jordans ◽  
Ivan Komproe ◽  
Robert Macy ◽  
Aline & Herman Ndayisaba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Task Shifting ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income
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