期刊名称：Economic and Social Progress in Latin America
电子版ISSN：0095-2850
出版年度：2005
卷号：1
出版社：Washington, DC
摘要：I N Latin America and around the world, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) comprise a large share of firms, employment, and gross domestic product (GDP). A new World Bank database on SMEs (defined as firms employing up to 250 workers) suggests that they employ nearly 50 percent of the labor force in the formal economy in Mexico; nearly 60 percent in Ecuador and Brazil; around 70 percent in Argentina, Colombia, Panama, and Peru; and as much as 86 percent in Chile (Ayyagari, Beck, and Demirgüç-Kunt 2003). Developed countries have a similar pattern: SMEs represent about 60 percent of total employment in Germany and the United Kingdom, about 70 percent in France and Japan, and about 80 percent in Italy and Spain.
