The objective of the present SME Operational Guidance Note is to support World Bank Group task teams and client countries with the knowledge and tools required for the effective design and implementations...
A key focus of most countries is to stimulate growth in their small and medium enterprises (SME) population. There are various influences on SME competitiveness. Governments, development partners, non-profit...
The central role that business innovation, the introduction and invention of new products, technologies, business processes, and ideas in the market, plays in economic growth is almost uncontested. Innovation...
This paper examines interventions that seek to address firm-level capabilities and access to markets in an integrated fashion. Examples of such interventions include supplier development programs (linking...
Due to their size and lack of scale, SMEs face many challenges to their growth, and governments on occasion choose to intervene to directly support firms. These interventions can be grouped into four broad...
China's economic growth continues to moderate, in 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 7.4 percent, within the government's indicative growth target of about 7.5 percent for the year, but sharply...
中国经济增速继续放缓。2014 年GDP 增长7.4%,基本上达到政府确定的7.5%左右的指导性目标,但大大低于过去30 年10%的年均增速。房地产业有序调整,反映了政府减少供给错配、收紧非银行信贷的政策努力。这种调整继续对经济活动有所抑制。房地产业的调整、过剩产能的累积和出口增长放缓导致工业生产乏力。不过服务业仍旧保持了有力增长,经济增长结构继续改善。2015 年的增长速度预计将降至7.1%,2017...
Innovation is the main driver of long-term economic growth. The accumulation of capital, whether in the form of physical assets such as plants and equipment, or through better human capital, cannot indefinitely...