How countries are helping small businesses survive COVID-19

Mar 12, 2021

A woman walks past a closed shop in a city centre amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Middlesbrough, Britain, March 3, 2021.

Scores of retail businesses have permanently closed in cities around the world since the Great Lockdown in the spring of 2020. Image: REUTERS/Lee Smith

Kazuko Shirono

Deputy Division Chief, The Financial Institutions Division of the Statistics Department of the IMF

Yingjie Fan

Project officer, IMF’s Statistics Department

Esha Chhabra

Economist, IMF’s Statistics Department

Our Impact

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how COVID-19 is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

COVID-19

Have you read?

How countries of differing incomes are supporting small businesses during COVID-19. Image: IMF's Financial Access COVID-19 Policy Tracker and IMF Staff Calculations.

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.