Governments allocate financial resources to support small-and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) through public subsidies and grants. However, do these public investments help …

Many people in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) work for Small and Medium-
sized Enterprises (SMEs). Oftentimes, these SMEs have limited access to finance …

We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs.
We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between …

Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of
one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them …

Bringing young people into productive work is a key labor market challenge in both
developing and developed economies, and a multitude of labor market interventions have …

Abstract Drawing upon the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this research investigated
the impact of information communications technology (ICT) on self-efficacy, social capital …

The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

Interventions to improve the labour market outcomes of youth: A systematic review of training,
entrepreneurship promotion, employment services and subsidized employment …

The world's poor--and programs to raise their incomes--are increasingly concentrated in
fragile states. We review the evidence on what interventions work, and whether stimulating …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …