PrintRefining the recommendations made in the 2010 stocktaking report, IFC developed a comprehensive SME Finance Policy Guide intended as a reference point for governments and regulators to underpin the development of Financial Inclusion Strategies and SME Finance Action Plans. The guide aims at covering all the focal areas of the Subgroup (women-owned SMEs, SMEs in the agricultural sector, SMEs in LDCs); fed by a wide consultation process, it set out models and presented good practice for policy and legal reforms, financial infrastructure, and public interventions, thereby providing a roadmap for planning, assessing and implementing policy and legal measures to support SME access to finance and laying the groundwork for future country level engagement.
