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Definitions, typologies and contributions of MSMEs
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Common characteristics of MSMEs
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Definitions, typologies and contributions of MSMEs
Definitions of MSMEs
Common characteristics of MSMEs
Typologies of MSMEs
MSME development and the Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Strategic coordination to achieve the SDGs
Overview of MSMEs in Asia-Pacific Regions
General economic policies influencing MSMEs
Macroeconomic policies
Macroeconomic policy levers
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Macroeconomic stability and foreign exchange
Monetary policy
Competition policy
Competition agencies and MSMEs
Competition law and policy: examples
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Trade and investment policies
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Investment policy
Market orientation and internationalization
Participation in regional and global value chains
Special economic zones
Developing MSME competitiveness
MSME competitiveness and Business Enabling Environment
Defining MSME competitiveness
MSMEs in national competitiveness
Role of MSMEs in enterprise competitiveness
Determinants of MSME competitiveness
Cluster development
Leveraging business enabling environment
Enhancing entrepreneurship and entrepreneur development
Defining entrepreneurship
Creating entrepreneurship awareness
Enhancing entrepreneur contributions
Policy recommendations
Formalizing informal MSMEs
Defining informality
Describing MSMEs in the informal sector
Informal MSMEs in the agricultural and rural sector
Role of the Digital Economy in formalizing MSMEs
Facilitating and digitalizing business registration
Policy recommendations
Interventions in MSME financing
Financial institutions for MSME's
Policies for improving MSME finance options
Fintech
Developing MSME sustainability
MSMEs, Climate Change and greening businesses
Unsustainable and sustainable adaptation
Making MSMEs green
Environmental policies targeting MSMEs
Aiming for a circular economy
Environmental management systems
Greening the supply chain
Coping with disasters and other shocks
Impact of disasters on MSMEs
Improving MSME resilience and agility
Resilience building
Disaster policy responses
The COVID-19 Pandemic
Gender and MSME development
Gender and entrepreneurship
Gender responsive ecosystem for MSME development
Reading on women’s entrepreneurship
Social enterprises
Defining social enterprise
Social enterprise in the Asia-Pacific
Directory of MSME Institutions
MSME Institutions in ESCAP Member States
International Organisations
Asia-Pacific MSME Policymakers Network
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Policy Library
Tohoku’s tourism development strategy following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami
World Bank early stage MSME finance in India
Daily Dump improves organic waste management in India
Doi Tung Development Project
ESCAP’s Women and ICT Frontier Initiative
Enterprise Singapore
Fijian Competition and Consumer Protection Policy Statement
First Programmatic Green Growth Development Policy Operation Project for Lao PDR
Generating opportunities for learning disabled (GOLD) in Malaysia
Going green in Malaysia benefits enterprises
ICICI Bank of India
Inclusive business
Incorporating MSMEs in equity markets in New Zealand
India’s Dalmia Cement
India’s exemption of MSMEs from GST payments
Licensed business angel investors in Turkey
MSMEs accelerating inclusivity in Singapore: Dignity Kitchen
Philippine Institute for Development Studies disaster impact categories
Philippine disaster risk reduction and management act
Policy to assist MSME for financing: MUDRA Bank, India
Promoting stronger governance in MSMEs
Public procurement framework to support MSMEs in Australia
Savan-Seno SEZ in Lao PDR
Simpa Networks in India
Singapore’s “New Company Start-Up Kit”
Stages of internationalization of MSMEs
Thailand’s BUILD programme
eLadang Lab programme: Digital technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Malaysia
The ICICI Bank MSME Programme
The Philippine Environment Partnership Programme
Township and Village Enterprises in China
Translating policy into implementation: Thailand’s superclusters
Types of public credit guarantee schemes
Vietnam’s provinces strive to become more attractive with BEE
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