Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe

By Meghana Ayyagari, Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Family Involvement in the Firm, Family‐to‐Business Support, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes: An Exploration** (2017, methodology): “Our goal was to obtain data from a sample of entrepreneurs, that is, founders of SMEs, which were defined as businesses with a maximum of JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT618 150 full-time employees (Ayyagari, Beck, and Demirguc-Kunt 2007; Hallberg 2000).”
SMEs in sustainable development: Their role in poverty reduction and employment generation in sub-Saharan Africa (2020, background): “The World Bank Review on small business activities shows the commitment of the World Bank Group in the development of the SMEs, as an essential part of its strategy to enhance economic growth, employment and poverty alleviation (Ayyagari, Beck, and Demirguc-Kunt 2007).”
Exploring country-level institutional arrangements on the rate and type of entrepreneurial activity (2013, neutral): “Empirical work that tests the propositions of institutional entrepreneurship finds that the small-business sector is larger in economies in which business start-up costs are lower (Ayyagari et al., 2008), and that the availability of private and public financial resources increases the likelihood of”
De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities (2010, background): “Apart from failing to shed much light on well-being, statistics on GDP rarely provide accurate data on the economic impacts of the informal sector (Lacko 2000; Ayyagari et al. 2007; Feige and Urban 2008; Ilahiane and Sherry 2008): in many developing countries, informal sector activities are the sour”
COVID-19 pandemic digitization lessons for sustainable development of micro-and small- enterprises (2021, background): “The informal economy in some developing countries—such as Nigeria—may represent 70% of the GDP ( Ayyagari, et al., 2007 ).”
Scaling-Up SME Access to Financial Services in the Developing World (2010, methodology): “Table II in the appendix to Ayyagari, Beck, and Demirgüç-Kunt (2007) provides the list of data sources.”
Closing the Credit Gap for Formal and Informal Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (2013, neutral): “For example, studies reveal that the relative size of the SME sector in a country and economic growth are positively related (Beck et al., 2005), and formal SMEs contribute to 50 percent of GDP on average in high income countries (Ayyagari et al., 2007).”