VIEWPOINT: FINANCING SMALL FARMERS—QUO VADIS?

Planning of Road Infrastructure Financing: Computational Finance Viewpoint

Lack of resources for road infrastructure financing is a problem that currently affects not only eastern European economies but also many other countries especially in relation to the impact of global financial crisis. In this context, we are talking about the socalled short-investment problem as a result of long-term lack of investment resources. Based on an analysis of road infrastructure fin...

Small and Medium Enterprises Financing in Bangladesh: The Missing Middle

This paper aims to comprehend the intrinsic limitations of the market players in the financial system and how these create a situation of `missing middle` for small and medium industries (SME) financing in Bangladesh. A clear dualism prevails in the manufacturing industry of this country. While the SMEs maintains the biggest share in establishments and employment creation, large enterprises (LE...

small business financing practices: an empirical study

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Financing Small Famer Development in Ethiopia

The financing preferences of small firm owners

Introduction Most small firms will never be able to raise all the funding they would like from banks and other institutions. In this crude sense there will always be a deficiency in the funding of the sector equal to the difference between the total demand for funding and that part of this demand which qualifies for funding support. This paper focuses more narrowly on the debt versus equity pre...