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Unlocking Growth Through Credit Guarantees: An overview analysis of loans to women-owned SMEs

Unlocking Growth Through Credit Guarantees: An overview analysis of loans to women-owned SMEs
Jun 25, 2013

USAID seeks to take stock of women-owned SME inclusion and performance as part of its donor transparency efforts, and also to inform future DCA programming decisions.
This report reviews 19,599 loans to SMEs — defined as firms with loans of US$2,000 or greater – in 53 countries within the DCA portfolio to determine access for women-owned SMEs to DCA-backed loans from 2008 to 2012. It also compares their loan performance and specific business characteristics across regions and business sectors to those of men-owned SMEs.

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