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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty / Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Ross Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beck, Thorsten.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w11224.
- NBER working paper series no. w11224
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2005.
- Summary:
- This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong, positive association between the importance of SMEs and GDP per capita growth. The data do not, however, confidently support the conclusions that SMEs exert a causal impact on growth. Furthermore, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2005.
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