Two decades of small enterprise development and microfinance
The focus of articles in this journal has shifted over two decades from specific, supply-driven interventions for small enterprises to a broader market development approach, including demand and intermediaries for private enterprises generally. Microfinance and business development services are increasingly being treated holistically through a value chain approach.- Value chain financing: evidence from Zambia on smallholder access to finance for mechanization
- Developing agro-pastoral entrepreneurship: bundling blended finance and technology
- Building frontline market facilitators' capacity: the case of the ‘Integrating Very Poor Producers into Value Chains Field Guide’
- Development impact bonds: learning from the Asháninka cocoa and coffee case in Peru
- Trade-off between outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa