Final Study Report “Studying Existing Financial and Policy Assistances for Microenterprise Development from Regional and International Institutions to Find out a Suitable Approach for APEC to Provide Support to Microenterprises”

The primary objective of this study is to collate information about various forms of support to microenterprises in the APEC region and others as well, with specific focus on the support provided by regional and international institutions, in order to make recommendations to APEC on how it might assist microenterprises in its developing economies.

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Microenterprises
• Chapter II. Rationale of Supporting Microenterprises
• Chapter III. Institutions and Framework for Microenterprise Support
• Chapter IV. Strategies, Approaches, Models and Types of Support to Microenteprises
• Chapter V. APEC and Microenterprises
• Chapter VI. Recommendations
• Conclusions
• References
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography