• The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.
  • The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
  • A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 
  • UK advocacy The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.
    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Governments Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Quick-guide-to-DFID/How-we-do-it/Building-our-common-future/Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Partys Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: ...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/07/~/media/Files/Green%20Papers/OneWorldConservatism.ashxclick here.


    Support for SMEs in emerging markets rises up the political agenda


    The Foundation has welcomed a commitment by G-20 leaders at their meeting in Pittsburgh earlier this month to address the lack of support for SMEs in the developing world, something the Foundation has long championed through its Aspire programme.


    In a joint statement released shortly after the summit the
    G-20 committed to:

    1. The creation of a G-20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group that will work with a number of international organisations to “identify lessons learned on innovative approaches to providing financial services to [the poor and in particular SMEs in developing countries], promote successful regulatory and policy approaches and elaborate standards on financial access, financial literacy, and consumer protection.”
    2. A G-20 SME Finance Challenge, designed as “a call to the private sector to put forward its best proposals for how public finance can maximise the deployment of private finance on a sustainable and scaleable basis.” 

    UK advocacy

    The G-20 commitment follows increasing interest from within the UK into the role of SMEs as catalysts for job creation and economic growth in the developing world.

    • In its latest White Paper, published in July the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) pledged: “to explore options for establishing a financing facility to help kick-start lending to the small and medium-sized businesses that are so crucial to creating jobs. We will help them use the facility well by improving the markets for business advice and support”.  Click here (page 34) for further information.
    • Meanwhile the UK Conservative Party’s Green Paper on International Development, also published in July, states: “...while microfinance focuses on very small loans, further up the scale small and medium-sized enterprises often face great difficulty in accessing the range of financial products that we take for granted in the UK”.  The Party promises greater emphasis on the need “to develop innovative approaches and share information about schemes that have been proven to work in this area” should they come to power.  For further information click here.