The Impact of Microfinance on Micro and Small Enterprise’s Performance and the Improvement of Their Business Opportunity

Rahmat Thio, Megananda and Achmad Maulana
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Megananda: Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University
Achmad Maulana: Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Megananda Suryana ()

No 200601, Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WoPEDS) from Department of Economics, Padjadjaran University

Abstract: This study finds that microfinance has positive impact to improvement of MSE’s ferformance indicated by sales; the difference in regional characteristic of MSE is also play role in determining its business scale. Since doubling amount of loan has negative impact to the performance, it’s very important to allocate the loan to the productive activities, such as investment, to improve the business opportunity.

Keywords: microfinance; small and medium enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-08, Revised 2006-08

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