The role of Public Development Banks in fostering the creation and growth of new businesses

In this report, The Montreal Group (TMG)’s Chief Economists examine the solutions PDBs are leveraging to foster business creation and support new ventures. Since the definition of a “new business” varies across the countries surveyed, we adopted a flexible definition: new businesses are early stage, for-profit commercial enterprises. They can be start-ups or businesses that have operated for a few years, but this study limits its analysis to businesses employing at least one person