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UNINA9910463723903321 |
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The big business of small enterprises : evaluation of the World Bank Group experience with targeted support to small and medium-size businesses, 2006-12 |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : International Bank for Reconstruction and Development : , : The World Bank, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Economic development projects - Developing countries - Evaluation |
Economic development - Developing countries |
Small business - Developing countries |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Overview; Management Response; Management Action Record; Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness; 1. The Logic of Targeted SME Support; Literature Analysis; Boxes; Box 1.1 Do SMEs Really Create More Jobs?; Figures; Figure 1.1 What Do SMEs Need?; Figure 1.2 Targeted Support to SMEs in an Ecosystem of Policies, Institutions, and Markets; Tables; Table 1.1 Top Major or Severe Constraints Facing Firms, by Firm Size; Box 1.2 The MSME Credit Gap: Whatever Became of Supply and Demand? |
Table 1.2 Top Major or Severe Constraints Facing Firms, by Country Income Group Figure 1.3 Probability of Having a Bank Loan or Line of Credit, by Firm Size (employees) and Country Income Group; Figure 1.4 Tax Rates as a Constraint in Select Middle-Income Countries; Scope of This Evaluation: "Targeted" Support to SMEs; Portfolio Review: SMEs Are Big Business for the World Bank Group; Figure 1.5 SME Support in IFC Investment, MIGA Guarantee, and World Bank Investment Portfolios, FY06-12, by Number of Projects |
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Figure 1.6 Global Coverage of World Bank Group TSME Support by Number of Projects and Total Commitments, Expenditures, and Gross Exposure, FY06-12 Theory of Change-Connecting Support to Outcomes; Figure 1.7 Theory of Change 1a: Financing SMEs through Loans, Investments, or Guarantees; Figure 1.8 Theory of Change 1b: Catalyzing Financial Sector Development, Deepening through IFC/World Bank Finance or Technical Assistance or MIGA Guarantees to Financial Intermediaries; Figure 1.9 Theory of Change 2: World Bank Group Advisory Services to Governments and Financial Institutions |
Figure 1.10 Theory of Change 3: World Bank Group Finance for Business Development and Firm-Level Advisory Services and Training to SMEs Figure 1.11 Theory of Change 4: Value Chain Interventions in Networks and Clusters; Table 1.3 Mapping World Bank Group Portfolios and Products to Theories of Change; Evaluation Design; Figure 1.12 Case Study Coverage of World Bank Group TSME Support in IFC Investment, MIGA Guarantee, and World Bank Investment Portfolios, FY06-12, by Number of Projects; 2. IFC Support for SMEs; Rationale; IFC Investments for Targeted Support to SMEs |
Figure 2.1 Distribution of IFC TSME Portfolio, by Number of Projects Figure 2.2 Distribution of IFC TSME Portfolio, by Commitment Value; Figure 2.3 Distribution of IFC TSME Investment Portfolio by Industry Group, Region, and Income Level, by Commitment Value; Figure 2.4 Portfolio Distribution by Country Income Level; Figure 2.5 Presence of SME Definition and Provision in Loan Agreement for IFC Financial Markets Investments, by Time Period; Table 2.1 Definition of SME in IFC TSME Board Documents; Box 2.1 Without Targeting, Projects Risk Losing Their Focus |
Box 2.2 Defining and Targeting - IFC's Investment Project in a Nicaraguan Bank |
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The World Bank Group promotes small and medium enterprise (SME) growth through both systemic and targeted interventions. Targeting means focusing benefits on one size-class of firms to the exclusion of others. Targeted support for SMEs is a big business for the World Bank Group, averaging around 3 billion a year in commitments, expenditures, and gross exposure over the 2006-12 period. In the context of broader reforms, such targeted support can be a powerful tool. Targeting SMEs is not an end in itself, but a means to create economies that can employ more people and create more opportunity for |
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UNINA9910591173303321 |
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Autore |
Torollo David |
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Sefer ha-Pardes by Jedaiah ha-Penini : a critical edition with English translation / / David Torollo |
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Cambridge : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2022 |
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©2022 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 174 pages) |
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Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures |
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Hebrew language, Medieval |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Parallel Text. |
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"This groundbreaking new work is the first full critical edition and English translation of the Hebrew book Sefer ha-Pardes [The Book of the Orchard], written at the end of the thirteenth century by the Provençal Jewish author Jedaiah ha-Penini. It is purportedly an example of musar: a compilation of wise epigrams and meshalim [parables] that teach moral lessons on different topics, such as the service of God, friendship, the deceitfulness of the world, medicine, logic, music, magic, and poetry. However, it is in reality a compendium of sayings that reveal the author's personal views and feelings on a variety of religious topics, secular sciences, and their practitioners. David Torollo presents a fluent and illuminating English-Hebrew parallel text based on four sixteenth-century witnesses: three manuscripts and a printed edition. A rigorous study accompanies and contextualises the Hebrew work, exploring Sefer ha-Pardes's transmission and reception in different places over time; its structure and content; its place in the intellectual environment and literary tradition of Provence; and possible lines of enquiry for future research. This essential new work offers a significant contribution to scholarship in the field of Medieval Hebrew Hispano-Provencal literature."--Publisher's website. |
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