CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis predicts that the Dutch economy will grow by nearly 3% in 2021, following a contraction of over 4% in 2020. Published on 26 November 2020, CPB prediction assumes that the epidemic will be under control in Europe in the first half of the new year. The currently projected economic growth rates are slightly higher for 2020 and slightly lower for 2021 than the previous projection of last September.

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Stichting MKB Financiering and ONL released the results of their Poll 5 on financing of Dutch enterprises. The recent poll indicates a dichotomy for SMEs in emerging from the corona crisis. While 45% of companies are already making plans to start investing in the short term, the number of entrepreneurs with acute liquidity problems has doubled to 27% since the second lockdown. 

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OECD’s Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2020 Report highlights that SMEs are increasingly turning to alternative financing instruments and that these instruments are receiving increasing attention from regulators and policy makers. The Report resents key recent trends in SME and entrepreneurship finance; provides an overview of developments in government policy in this area; and offers recommendations to further improve the evidence base. The report provides information for 48 countries worldwide.

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For the first time, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) has consolidated its annual regional reports to produce one global benchmarking report, with the intention of presenting worldwide online alternative finance data for 2018. Published in April 2020, this report presents the key findings from an annual global survey of online alternative finance.

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