TY  - BOOK
AU  - Correa,Paulo Guilherme
AU  - Correa,Paulo Guilherme
AU  - Seker,Murat
TI  - Obstacles To Growth for Small and Medium Enterprises in Turkey
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Access to Finance
KW  - Achieving Shared Growth
KW  - Business environment
KW  - Credit Line
KW  - Emerging Markets
KW  - Employment
KW  - Expansion
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Financial institution
KW  - Financial institutions
KW  - Firm size
KW  - Firms
KW  - Human capital
KW  - Industry
KW  - Job creation
KW  - Lenders
KW  - Licensing
KW  - Loan
KW  - Medium Enterprises
KW  - Medium Scale Enterprises
KW  - Medium size enterprises
KW  - Microfinance
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Small firms
KW  - Small Scale Enterprise
KW  - SME
KW  - SME sector
KW  - Suppliers
N2  - Many studies have shown that firm growth decreases monotonically with size and age. In this study, the authors investigate employment growth of firms in Turkey with an emphasis on small and medium size enterprises. In Turkey, small and medium size enterprises account for almost 77 percent of employment and play a crucial role in the economy. However, the analysis of firm dynamics in Turkey shows that medium-size firms (51-250 workers) are the slowest growing group in the economy. Moreover, small and medium size enterprises grow at a slower rate in Turkey than in several comparator countries in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. After determining this irregularity, the paper analyzes how the investment climate affects firm growth and finds that improved access to finance is the most important factor that significantly increases firm growth rates
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5323
ER  -