- Overview, March 2010 (PDF - 690 KB)
- Portfolio Highlights, May 2009 (PDF - 1.9 MB)
- Quarterly Summary, as of December 31, 2009 (PDF - 121 KB)
- 2008 Annual Highlights (PDF - 748 KB)

SME Resources

It is important to have the right tools and information to successfully start or expand a small- or medium-size enterprise (SME). Here are some resources that can help:

Getting Started – Comprehensive Guides

BiD Network Business Guide
The BiD network Guide is a comprehensive tool for SMEs, offering insight on such topics as starting and growing a business, legal information, and finance and funding.

IFC SME Toolkit
The SME Toolkit offers software, business forms, training, and more to help small businesses in emerging markets grow and succeed. IFC has also developed region-specific SME toolkits accessible through the main page.

Markets and Business Environments

FDI.net
FDI.net promotes foreign direct investments in developing countries. Of particular use in SME development are fact sheets detailing the specifics of the business environment in various countries. FDI.net also brings together a range of market and financial information from outside sources.

Doing Business
Doing Business provides a quantitative measure of regulations for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business—as they apply to domestic small- and medium-size enterprises.

Additional Assistance

TechnoServe – Business Solutions to Poverty
TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, communities and countries. Its programs focus on developing entrepreneurs, building businesses and industries, and improving the business environment.