Impact of Fiscal Policies on Western Balkan SMEs’ Growth: Evidence from Kosovo

Jusufi, Gezim; Gashi-Sadiku, Fillorete

doi:10.17573/cepar.2020.2.07

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“…Secondly, we recommend that the fiscal policy on SME should be ameliorated. Fiscal policies are very significant for the general development of all countries, (Jusufi and Gashi-Sadiku, 2020) and from their findings, they suggested that the exist a positive relationship between SME growth and fiscal packages which proves to the accurate. The productive tax rate in Cameroon stands at 57.7 percent according to the 2018 report on doing business in Cameroon.…”

Section: Policy Recommendation and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 88%

The Role of Banking Institutional Services on the Sustainable growth of SMEs in Cameroon

Engwa

Yakum

Mukah

2021

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Banking institutions have been very instrumental to the growth of Small and Medium Sized enterprises in many developed economies, and they have been considered as one of the principal driving forces for economic development. The case has not been the same for Cameroon as owner managers of these SMEs have been complaining of the limited presence of banking institutions in solving their problems. Mindful of the fact that Cameroon has a growth vision to become an emerging economy by 2035, the country had to take giant steps to boast the growth of SME in the country. Some of these steps were the introduction of the small business law in 2010. This was all in a drive to ensure that SME play a vital role to the GDP growth, reduce unemployment, alleviate poverty and act as an engine for the country’s emergence growth drive. It is therefore in this light that a study was carried out on the role of banking institutional services on the sustainable growth of SME in Cameroon. A logistic regression model was adopted to examine the impact of banking institutions on the growth of SMEs in Cameroon. The data used in the study was extracted from the 2016 Cameroon Enterprise Survey which was collected from 361 enterprises by the National Institute of Statistics in the country. From the empirical results, it was discovered that 68.4% of the enterprises were growing as opposed to the 31.6%. Despite the high growth rate of these SME bank loans were affecting the growth of SME negatively while MFI loans, electronic banking services, internal funds and research and development were positively contributing to the growth of SME in the country. Thus, we concluded the study by emphasisng the implementation of relationship lending which will contribute positively to the growth of SMEs and more so fiscal policies should be ameliorated to boast the growth of startups businesses.

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Section: Policy Recommendation and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 88%

The Role of Banking Institutional Services on the Sustainable growth of SMEs in Cameroon

Engwa

Yakum

Mukah

2021

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“…Further, Wadesango et al (2020) [26] analysed the relationship between tax amnesty and tax compliance among SMEs in Zimbabwe and obtained an inverse relation. Several studies have turned their attention to assessing the effects of taxation on the performance and growth of SMEs [30][31][32][33] and mainly showed that these effects are negative. Thus, the study by Awotwe [31] analyses the effects of taxation on the financing decisions of SMEs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Jusufi and Sadiku [33] analysed the impact of fiscal policies on increases in the capacity of SMEs in the Western Balkans. The variables included in the study were: population number, nominal GDP at current prices, GDP per capita, unemployment rate, value-added services (% of GDP) and employment.…”

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Tax Payment and the Performance of SMEs: A Longitudinal Analysis on EU Countries

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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered the engine of any economy and actively contribute to the economic growth of countries. For this reason, there are concerns regarding the identification of the factors that influence the activity of SMEs and, in particular, how they manage to adapt and obtain better performance in a constantly changing economic environment. The tax burden is high and discouraging for many enterprises, so we aimed to analyse the relationship between the taxes imposed on SMEs and their performance. Thus, the main purpose of our study was to analyse the relationship between the taxes paid by SMEs and their performance. The period of analysis consisted of the 14 years between 2008 and 2021. The analysed sample comprised the 27 member countries of the European Union. To test the relationship, we used panel data methods, and we considered two indicators that measure the performance of SMEs as dependent variables and indicators that measure the taxes paid by businesses as independent variables. For a more in-depth analysis, we used clusters of countries. The main results show that the taxes that SMEs have to pay are seen as obstacles in the way of improving performance. Moreover, the relationship between taxes and the performance of SMEs depends on the specifics of the economy of the country.

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy Response During COVID-19 Crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Constraints and Potentials

Kreso

Lazović-Pita

Duraković

2021

Macroeconomic Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Impact of Fiscal Policies on Western Balkan SMEs’ Growth: Evidence from Kosovo

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

The Role of Banking Institutional Services on the Sustainable growth of SMEs in Cameroon

The Role of Banking Institutional Services on the Sustainable growth of SMEs in Cameroon

Tax Payment and the Performance of SMEs: A Longitudinal Analysis on EU Countries

Monetary and Fiscal Policy Response During COVID-19 Crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Constraints and Potentials

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