Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2024-Volume II: Trends and Challenges Facing Small Bu

Summarizing a 2024 Timor-Leste business mapping survey, this report highlights the challenges facing the country's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and outlines ways to provide vital support and spur economic growth.

The report explores how Timor-Leste's largely homogenous MSMEs are trading and looks at issues around financing, digitalization, and supply chains. It shows how policies designed to incentivize exports, boost innovation by clustering businesses, and encourage digitalization could support a mid- to long-term strategy to develop a diverse range of growth-orientated ventures.