EU Financial Engineering and Microfinance Non-financial Service: A Case Study

Maria Claudia Costantini, Maria Doiciu, Stefanie Lämmermann, Andrea Nardone and Giovanni Nicola Pes

Chapter 3 in Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities, 2016, pp 102-147 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99.8 per cent of the total number of enterprises in Europe and play a key role in terms of economic development and creation of jobs, by accounting for 57.6 per cent of added value in EU-27 and more than two thirds of jobs created in the private sector (Table 3.1). Over 90 per cent of European businesses are microenterprises with less than ten employees, whose importance is particularly significant in South European countries such as Italy, Spain and Portugal.1

Keywords: European Central Bank; Entrepreneurship Education; European Social Fund; Potential Entrepreneur; Microfinance Institution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137536020_3

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