SME Finance Policy Guide
SME Finance Policy Guide
SME Finance Policy Guide
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4 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR FINANCIAL INCLUSION<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
International <strong>Finance</strong> Corporation (IFC) is the lead technical advisor to the G-20 Global Partnership for<br />
Financial Inclusion’s (GPFI) <strong>SME</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> Sub-Group. This report was produced by IFC on behalf of the<br />
GPFI. The GPFI is the main platform for implementation of the G-20 Financial Inclusion Action Plan. The<br />
group engages partners from G-20 and non-G-20 countries, private sector, civil society, and others. It is<br />
chaired by the G-20 troika countries, currently Korea, France, and Mexico. The GPFI is supported by<br />
three implementing partners: the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), the Consultative Group to Assist<br />
the Poor (CGAP), and International <strong>Finance</strong> Corporation (IFC). www.gpfi.org<br />
This “<strong>SME</strong> <strong>Finance</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>” was developed under the overall guidance of Peer Stein (IFC), Aysen<br />
Kulakoglu (Treasury of Turkey) and Susanne Dorasil (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and<br />
Development, Germany). The working group for the report was led by Ghada Teima (IFC), with Douglas<br />
Pearce as lead author (World Bank), Diego Sourrouille (World Bank), Teymour Abdel Aziz (World Bank),<br />
Ina Hoxha (World Bank).<br />
IFC, World Bank, and CGAP policy experts that contributed to the <strong>Policy</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> include: Alejandro<br />
Alvarez de la Campa, Riadh Naouar, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria, Mahesh Uttamchandani, Massimo<br />
Cirasino, Antony Lythgoe, Roberto Rocha, Katia D’Hulster and Valeria Salomao Garcia, Kabir Kumar,<br />
Leora Klapper, Alex Berg, Heinz Rudolph, Eric Duflos, Chris Bold, Alan David Johnson, Bikki Randhawa,<br />
Nina Bilandzic, Marieme Dassanou, Panayotis Varangis.<br />
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) provided access to its Small<br />
and Medium Enterprises (<strong>SME</strong>) finance literature. The Overseas Development Institute also provided<br />
drafting inputs to the report.<br />
The team would like to thank the peer reviewers for their valuable and substantive comments, in particular<br />
Roberto Rocha (World Bank) and Thorsten Beck (Professor of Economics, Tilburg University).<br />
This work was completed under the leadership of the co-chairs of the G-20 <strong>SME</strong> finance sub-group:<br />
Susanne Dorasil (Germany), Anuradha Bajaj (United Kingdom), Aysen Kulakoglu (Turkey), and Christopher<br />
Grewe (United States).