{"product_id":"banking-for-growth-9783639026672","title":"Banking for Growth","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Virginia Davies\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Banks \u0026amp; Banking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe absence of a robust small and medium-sized (\"SMEs\") formal business sector - or the \"missing middle\" - has long been identified as both a contributing factor and a distinguishing characteristic of many countries. Many reasons have been advanced to explain the \"missing middle\" including the inability of SMEs to access bank-based credit. This book compares the relative merits of recent legal reforms that have emerged to address the lack of bank-based credit by considering the way in which recent reforms support the independent and inter-active roles of the stakeholders to the financial intermediation pro-cess. An historical description and comparison of the laws impacting the various stakeholders to bank-based financial intermediation in Canada, the United States, Britain and Taiwan provides the foun-dation on which the analysis of current reforms which encourage \"downscaling\" of commercial banks and\/or \"upscaling\" of microcredit lenders are considered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46887404011671,"sku":"9783639026672","price":7327.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783639026672.webp?v=1770255806","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/banking-for-growth-9783639026672","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}