This Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing Project (FS Share) paper examines how burdensome microeconomic policies can increase the cost and risk of lending and identify ways to remediate these barriers to facilitate financial sector development.
Resource - Paper
An assessment of the priority constraints and recommendations, by area of concern, within Azerbaijan’s securities market. This document also reviews the legal and regulatory environment and the institutional infrastructure entailed in establishing that securities market.
Resource - Paper
The Rapid Financial Soundness Assessment (RFSA) identifies the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial sector participants, assesses overall soundness and stability of the financial, real and household sectors, highlights linkages between the macroeconomy and the financial, real and household sectors, and ascertains technical assistance needs and policy recommendations.
Resource - Toolkit
The objective of the Capital Markets Assessment Tools (AT) is to conduct capital markets diagnoses in developing countries, based on a comprehensive questionnaire, and to identify targeted technical assistance to develop and strengthen well-functioning public markets.
Resource - Tool
This report provides U.S. government program designers with a basic technical understanding of the core requirements to introduce finance secured by movable property, a tool used to increase access to finance, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Resource - Paper
This agricultural lending toolkit outlines a package of resources to support banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other emerging economies to increase their comfort with and capacity to extend agricultural lending.
Resource - Toolkit
This primer, Enabling Sub-sovereign Bond Issuances, provides U.S. government (USG) program designers with a basis of technical understanding of sub-national finance as a sustainable approach to supporting local government infrastructure development and improved service delivery.
Resource - Paper
This final report provides a summary of project activities, presents results and lessons learned, and enables access to the technical resources, tools, and templates produced by the Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing (FS Share) project.
Resource - Project Report
USAID’s Asia and Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices Project and the bureau’s technical support teams worked to identify country priorities, capture and disseminate best practices, and pilot innovative technologies and approaches to enable more-inclusive economic growth in Asia and the Middle East.
Resource - Project Report
This primer explains how Chemonics works with financial institutions to increase the availability and affordability of financial services for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), as well as for underserved populations.
Resource - Technical Brief
USAID’s Small and Medium Enterprise Development Program focused on raising access of small businesses to business development services. As a result of these efforts, more than 10,900 micro, small, and medium businesses were assisted and 22,000 jobs were created, 48 percent of which went to women.
Resource - Project Report
A follow-on project of USAID’s economic policy reforms in Mongolia, the Business Plus Initiative was formed to enable the private sector, improve the capacity of government and business organizations, and expand dialogue to include business stakeholders and community understanding of the reform agenda.
Resource - Project Report
