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African SMEs Through COVID-19: Challenges, Policy Responses and Recommendations
This policy brief stresses the key challenges faced by SMEs on the continent and analyzes how these challenges are likely to be exacerbated by COVID-19.
Mobilizing Agricultural Finance
This report identifies bottlenecks in lenders' strategies and processes in assessing the bankability of agri-SMEs and details their bankability metrics.
Guidance Note for Action: Supporting SMEs to Ensure the Economic COVID-19 Recovery is Gender-Responsive and Inclusive
This Note shows how the barriers women entrepreneurs already face in starting and retaining a business are likely to increase in the aftermath of COVID-19.
Non-Financial Services: The Key to Unlocking the Growth Potential of Women-Led Small and Medium Enterprises for Banks
This study examines the benefits to banks of integrating non-financial services that can help mitigate barriers facing women-led enterprises into a women-focused SME banking proposition.
Survey Report on Alternative Finance for MSMEs
Reflecting on the vital role of MSMEs in emerging economies
Gendered Impacts of COVID-19 on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Sri Lanka
Findings from a survey and interviews with SME clients of financial institutions
Regional Policy Framework for Enhancing MSME Financing Ecosystem in Africa
Recommendations for addressing access to finance challenges for MSMEs
Scoping and Assessment Report - MSME Access to Finance Ecosystem in Africa
How can the MSME financing ecosystem in Africa be improved?
Navigating Through COVID-19: A Snapshot on How the Pandemic Affected MSMEs in Guinea
Country assessment reflecting the impact of the pandemic on banked enterprises