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It Takes All Kinds: A Diverse Mix of Lenders Promotes Broad Access to Small Business Credit
Who lends to small businesses, and how is this changing over time? This paper challenges popular an
swers to this question. First, despite the growing role of non-banks, banks continue to be the most important source of credit for small businesses.
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New Survey Evidence from Nepali Businesses
To explore the major priorities for—and obstacles to—developing the public equity market in Nepal,
the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) partnered with the Milken Institute to organize a strategic planning roundtable in Kathmandu on May 31, 2019, during a me
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Public-Private Infrastructure Financing Solutions
Infrastructure is the backbone of a nation’s economic prosperity and crucial for growth.
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The Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM): Increasing Minority Entrepreneurs Access to Capital
The Milken Institute and U.S.
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Empowering Communities and Their Banks: Strategies for Enhancing Minority Depository Institutions
The Milken Institute, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and JP Morgan Chase & Co., i
s excited to release its latest contribution to the national conversation on how to improve underserved communities.
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Priming SDG Markets: Can International Donors and Implementers Create An Impact Investment Pipeline?
Leveraging the power of markets is critical to fulfilling the bold ambitions of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Minority-Owned Depository Institutions: A Market Overview
The Milken Institute and the US Small Business Administration formed an initiative to develop actio
nable solutions to the challenges limiting minority-owned small businesses’ access to capital.
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Affordable Rent and Access to Homeownership: Refreshing the Debate in the Context of Housing Finance Reform
The continuing policy debate over restructuring the plumbing of the secondary mortgage market may u
ltimately prove to be the easy part—at least politically—of housing finance reform.
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capit
al among Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs and small-businesses owners.
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Tale of Two Cities: From Farmland to Tech Mecca
While the San Francisco Bay Area's Silicon Valley and China’s Shenzhen operate under two different
and distinct political and economic systems, both have been recognized as innovation and technology hubs with unique economic success.
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Comment Letter to the CFPB for Information Regarding the Small Business Lending Market
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and contribute substantially to U.S. econ
omic growth and productivity.
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Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets Phase I Summary: Developing Action-Oriented Solutions to the Financing Challenges Facing Minority-Owned Small Businesses
Minority-owned small businesses play an important role in the nation’s economic health by driving j
ob creation, raising wages, and elevating better standards of living in communities throughout the United States.
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