All around the world, businesses struggle to access the financing they need to expand. The US Agency for International Development’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) works to address this by providing partial credit guarantees to mobilize financing. With these additional resources, lenders can take on additional risk, and small businesses benefit from additional access to credit. To find out which countries and sectors are in the greatest need of financing, USAID DCA needs information from people and businesses around the world, who are often in regions where conducting surveys can be extremely slow and expensive.