I've just had the good fortune to attend the first joint workshop by the Asian Development Bank and the OECD on SME Finance in Asia. It's great to see these two organizations collaborating, and I see enormous potential in their relationship, particularly in expanding the SME Finance Scorecard data work OECD has started into more Asian countries, as a part of ADB's new Asia SME Finance Monitor initiative. The workshop was also a chance to discuss key issues in the field, including financial markets infrastructure development, trade and supply chain finance for SMEs, and key policy constraints. I hope that the ADB and OECD will be making the materials from this meeting more widely available, and I encourage them to post links to same...
matt