SME finance in Africa

Thorsten Beck and Robert Cull

No 7018, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across different groups of firms. It relates firms'access to finance to firm and banking system characteristics and discusses policy challenges.

Keywords: Access to Finance; Banks&Banking Reform; Debt Markets; Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress; Microfinance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-01
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