Priority Areas

The MAP develops projects and research in three main areas:

Access to finance and credit

Regulations to promote access to credit
Property and legal frameworks for credit
Supervision and regulation of financial systems
Causes of informality and lack of access to credit
Financial literacy programs for SMEs

New Instruments

Agricultural finance
Green finance
New creditscoring and lending techniques for SMEs
Instruments supporting clusters and value chain financing

SME development services

Impact evaluation of financial and productive development programs
Sector issues and development of consensus on financial development
Business and financial services for SMEs