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                                                            Azerbaijan: Private Sector Financing and the role of Risk-bearing Instruments

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                                                              26 Mar 2014

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                                                            This study was commissioned by the EIB with funding from the Eastern Partnership Technical Assistance Trust Fund, EPTATF. The study assesses the financing needs of the SMEs in the Eastern Partnership countries and the market failures that are constraining the development of the SME sector. In addition the study addresses the funding needs of the intermediaries that specialize in SME financing and examines the potential for different types of financial products including equity, guarantees, trade finance and other risk-bearing instrument.

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                                                            • Financing in Georgia: Small and medium enterprises and the private sector
                                                            • Corporate innovation in Austria: Findings from the EIB Investment Survey
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                                                            • Banking in Africa: Delivering on Financial Inclusion, Supporting Financial Stability
                                                            • Infrastructure Investment in the Western Balkans: A First Analysis
                                                            • Republic of Belarus: Financial Sector Review and Private Sector Financing
                                                            • Banking in sub-Saharan Africa - Interim Report on Digital Financial Inclusion
                                                            • Wind of change: Investment in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe
                                                            • Banking in sub-Saharan Africa - Recent Trends and Digital Financial Inclusion
                                                            • Armenia: Neighbourhood SME financing
                                                            • Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries - Synthesis Report
                                                            • Serbia: Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries
                                                            • Montenegro: Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries
                                                            • Kosovo: Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries
                                                            • FYROM: Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries
                                                            • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries
                                                            • Albania: Assessment of financing needs of SMEs in the Western Balkans countries
                                                            • Neighbourhood SME financing – Synthesis Report
                                                            • Ukraine: Neighbourhood SME financing
                                                            • Tunisia: Neighbourhood SME financing
                                                            • Jordan: Neighbourhood SME financing
                                                            • Georgia: Neighbourhood SME financing
                                                            • Recent Trends in Banking in sub-Saharan Africa - From Financing to Investment
                                                            • Private Sector Financing and the role of Risk-bearing Instruments - Synthesis Report
                                                            • Ukraine: Private Sector Financing and the role of Risk-bearing Instruments
                                                            • Moldova: Private Sector Financing and the role of Risk-bearing Instruments
                                                            • Georgia: Private Sector Financing and the role of Risk-bearing Instruments
                                                            • Armenia: Private Sector Financing and the role of Risk-bearing Instruments
                                                            • Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in Russia
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