Latin American development banking system: strategic fields of action and scope of the international financial architecture
The document discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean amid economic, environmental, and health crises since 2020, compounded by geopolitical tensions. It highlights the need to address key issues like climate change, digitalization, energy transition, and support for SMEs, while strengthening governance and accountability.
A microscope on small businesses: The productivity opportunity by country
In this research, MGI aggregated a richly granular data set of MSMEs and large companies across 12 broad sectors, 68 level-two subsectors, and more than 200 level-three subsectors for 16 countries that account for more than half of global GDP.
In these countries, MSMEs on average have only half the productivity of large companies, and less than that in emerging economies. Raising MSMEs to top-quartile levels relative to large companies is equivalent to 5 percent of GDP in advanced economies and 10 percent in emerging economies.
The benefits of energy-efficient renovations in commercial buildings
This report highlights the benefits they can bring to SMEs, such as property value and energy savings. It also provides guidance on the most appropriate investments depending on the project objectives, and some best practices to facilitate the retrofit process.
How to Cope With Inflation and Remain Profitable
An ageing population, the energy transition, and faltering globalization will continue to put pressure on business costs in the coming years.
What can companies do to adapt to these potentially profit-threatening trends?
BDC surveyed 1,500 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to understand how the rising cost of doing business is affecting them and what strategies they can adopt to address it.
Advisory boards: an untapped resource for businesses
BDC undertook the first-ever Canadian study on the use of advisory boards by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The study describes how advisory boards work in these businesses and quantitatively demonstrates that SMEs that use them have superior growth and better financial results.
Increasing market acceptance – ELTI position paper on the targeted recast of the EU Financial Regulation
Due to the absence of impact assessment the effect of the proposed changes on EU Financial Instruments and the benefit of a greater reliance on Implementing Partners was not estimated. In this context, the ELTI association would like to highlight proposals, as outlined further below, based on the practical experience of National Promotional Banks and Institutions (NPBIs) which are implementing partners (IPs) of EU funds, operating directly and/or with financial intermediaries.
Responses of Latin American development banks to the economic crisis by the covid 19 in particular in agricultural and smes sectors
Even with more knowledge of the economic effects, the international crisis caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic showed an uncertain picture at the beginning.
In this paper we focus our attention on the measures, actions and the role of public development
banks, particularly in the agricultural and micro, small and medium-sized enterprise sectors,
during the covid 19 crisis.
Honour loans: a comprehensive mechanism to foster development by supporting MSMEs – ICReport in the series on Innovative Finances
The honour loans mechanism is a multidimensional one combining financing free of interest or requirement for securities or guarantees, with support to entrepreneurs. It has several benefits for entrepreneurs. They are a complement to the local financial ecosystem and thus contribute to filling the finance gap. They can be integrated into national long-term public policies to support MSMEs and adapted to regional programmes.
Effectiveness & Efficiency of Business Development Services (BDS) for Agri-SMEs
ISF Advisors created this report to help identify and assess the efficiency and effectiveness of business development services (BDS) tools and methodologies provided to agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (agri-SMEs). This report presents our findings from an extensive desk review of existing research, an analysis of data collected from 15 BDS provider case studies, and interviews/learning sessions with stakeholders in the space.
Increasing market acceptance ELTI position paper on the targeted recast of the EU Financial Regulation
On 16 May 2022 the European Commission published a targeted amendment of the EU Financial Regulation, “aiming to strike the right balance by focusing on changes that are really necessary” and included “targeted improvements”, not least on “strengthening the protection of the Union financial interests”.