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SELA held the “Regional Meeting on innovative mechanisms for financing and guarantees for MSMEs in Latin America and the Caribbean”, together with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) of the Dominican Republic. This event aimed to present the innovative mechanisms for financing and guarantees that has been used in Latin American and Caribbean countries to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and to follow up the agreements reached at the Central American and the Caribbean subregional meetings organized by the Permanent Secretariat and the Governments of Costa Rica and Jamaica during the year 2015, in order to assess the progress and feasibility of creating regional financing and guarantee systems for MSMEs.
