Financing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Asia and the Pacific: Credit Guarantee Schemes

By Asian Development Bank

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are widely regarded as the backbone of economies and make a unique contribution to gross domestic product, exports, and employment. Yet, SMEs face multiple challenges in gaining access to finance that can fuel their growth. This publication scrutinizes the multiple factors affecting SMEs’ access to finance and the impact of credit guarantee schemes (CGSs), examines country case studies from across the globe, and highlights the financial and economic additionality of CGSs when they are rigorously setup. To support Asia and Pacific economies, the publication suggests operational policy recommendations for the key priority areas of CGSs, focusing on legal and regulatory setup, corporate governance, services offered, risk management, and monitoring.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Release date: Mar 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9789292693596

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FINANCING SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

CREDIT GUARANTEE SCHEMES

MARCH 2022

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ISBN 978-92-9269-358-9 (print); 978-92-9269-359-6 (electronic); 978-92-9269-360-2 (ebook)

Publication Stock No. TCS220030-2

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS220030-2

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CONTENTS

TABLES, FIGURES, AND BOXES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Financing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Asia and the Pacific: Credit Guarantee Schemes is a product of the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Junkyu Lee, chief of Finance Sector Group, headed a core team of staff in preparing this publication. Staff and consultants in SDCC, co-led by Sung Su Kim, financial sector specialist (Inclusive Finance) and Mohammad Shadan Khan, SME financing specialist consultant and Hyungchan Lee, financial sector specialist, SDCC, provided crucial support and coordinated production of the publication.

Operational support was graciously provided by Katherine Mitzi Co, associate operations analyst, SDCC and Matilde Mila Cauinian, operations assistant, SDCC. Additional research support was provided by Alyssa Villanueva and Mikko Marl Diaz.

The team wishes to thank representatives from the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund and the Credit Guarantee Corporation Malaysia Berhad, who participated and shared their views in the Webinar held on 29 June 2020 and made valuable suggestions for developing the publication.

The team greatly appreciates Syed Ali-Mumtaz Shah from ADB’s Central and West Asia Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division and Takuya Hoshino from ADB’s South Asia Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division for valuable comments and inputs to this publication and staff in ADB headquarters and in resident missions who contributed to the knowledge events on 29 June 2020 and 6 November 2020.

We thank all contributors for their valiant support of this publication despite the difficult situation caused by the coronavirus disease.

Finally, the team also acknowledges colleagues from the Department of Communications for their continuous support in disseminating the publication.

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