The role of SMEs in rural development: Access of SMEs to finance as a mediator

• Faiza Manzoor ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Faiza Manzoor, Longbao Wei

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4106-0910

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• Longbao Wei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Faiza Manzoor, Longbao Wei

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lbwei@zju.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Noman Sahito

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of City & Regional Planning, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

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