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Economic Research and Training Foundation

Empowering enterprises through digitalization and formalization: expanding the role of formal credit through the prism of ASUSE 2025 Unit level analysis

SBI Research

Our estimates shows that digital / ICT adoption leads to 76% increase in the labor productivity.. increases the likelihood of firm registration on average by 84 percentage points…Registration also increases the credit access…female proprietors have higher probability of institutional credit access… Government-linked registration systems are associated with deeper formal business practices.

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