A clear understanding of the NME landscape—through market segmentation and sizing—is essential for designing targeted products, policies, and programs that effectively support these enterprises. This Technical...
This Focus Note explores the innovative financing strategies for reaching inclusive credit fintechs in Africa, particularly those targeting underserved micro and small enterprises (MSEs). These fintechs...
Know by many different names around the world, including duka, kirana, warung and sari-sari, neighborhood convenience stores or micro retail shops are central to the economic fabric in emerging markets...
The Myanmar firm monitoring survey (Round 17) was conducted from April 5, 2024, to May 5, 2024, encompassing a nationally representative sample of 500 firms. The survey spanned various areas of Myanmar...
The development objective of Empowering Microfinance and Enterprises for Resilience and Growth Project for Afghanistan is to support the demand for and supply of finance for micro and small enterprises...
The Competitiveness and Financial Inclusion (CAFI) project aims to increase access to business support services and financial products for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and entrepreneurs...
This paper describes the state of informal sector work in urban Sub-Saharan Africa, using household surveys from 26 countries representing 61 percent of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa and firm surveys...
Bangladesh is known for its pioneering approaches that support Micro Enterprises (MEs) to alleviate poverty. Microenterprises contribute up to 25 percent of GDP and provide 56 percent of jobs in the country...
As increasing the pace of productivity growth continues to be a strong challenge in Europe despite the continuous global technology developments, promoting the adoption and usage of digital technology...
Standard in-person business training programs are costly and difficult to scale to the millions of microenterprises in the developing world. The authors conducted an experiment to test the feasibility...
In FY19-23, Sweden provided cumulative funding of over 55 million through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to support IFC Advisory Services. The MENA MSME 2.0 program is...
The development objective of the Promoting Access to Finance for Productive Purposes for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) for Ecuador is to promote access to finance for productive purposes...
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In 2021, a series of Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) publications featured success stories from microfinance institutions (MFIs) implementing digital products and channels, along with the...
Entrepreneurship and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) play a critical role in creating more and better jobs. MSMEs across the world account for a large share of jobs. Many jobs created by MSMES...
This recommendation report analyzing the size and effects of tax optimization and bunching with a microsimulation tool covers the deliverable 4 of the technical assistance under the project “Lithuania:...
Household businesses make up the majority of firms in developing economies. This paper uses a novel tax census database that covers the universe of tax-registered household businesses to analyze the entry...