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Countries design programs for supporting firms, with varying levels of success. Firm growth is constrained by several factors, such as low firm capabilities (e.g. management), availability of finance, and access to markets. Based on the available experimental evidence on firm support programs in developing countries, this paper makes three broad observations. First, there are huge knowledge gaps in understanding the success of instruments that alleviate firm constraints. Various instruments, such as early-stage equity finance, incubators, and accelerators, remain untested due to the lack of good design, results framework, or monitoring and evaluation systems and so on. Second, since these interventions are expensive, policy makers expect such programs to be designed more effectively to pursue their objectives. However, evidence provides little guidance on the criterion for firm selection because the existing evaluations of instruments reveal little information on the heterogeneous impact by firm characteristics, such as the age, size, sector, and location of firms. Third, most interventions seek to address only one of the broad constraints faced by firms. To this end, the paper concludes with a novel proposal for a firm support program that attempts to sequentially address multiple constraints to firm growth. This program will be implemented in Malawi through the "Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Scaling" project.

Access To Finance --- Business Development Services --- Business Incubator --- Business Support --- Enterprise Development and Reform --- Entrepreneurship --- Firm Capability --- Firm Performance --- Knowledge Gap --- Market Access --- Organizational Management --- Private Sector Development --- Private Sector Economics --- Randomized Control Trials --- Skills Development and Labor Force Training --- Social Protections and Labor

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The book comprises a selection of papers addressing some of the most relevant challenges and opportunities for addressing SDGs from many different perspectives. Papers in this collection cover the most recent lines and approaches of research in addressing SDGs and are all novel propositions that deepen the analysis of environmental, social and governance strategies in the adaptation of the society to meet the 17 SDGs.

ecological footprint --- environmental performance of SMEs --- 2030 Agenda --- sustainable development goals (SDGs) --- systemic sustainability analysis --- SDG targets prioritization --- sustainability --- project management --- scheduling --- public infrastructures --- Z-fuzzy number --- sustainable development goals --- facilitating factors --- implementation --- regional and local planning --- Norway --- capability assessment --- business incubator --- maturity model --- Thailand --- agro-food business --- small and medium enterprise (SME) --- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) --- Agenda 2030 --- regime analysis --- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals --- ecosystem services --- forest --- forestry --- management practices --- European Green Deal --- sustainable development --- financing --- impact fund --- sustainable urban drainage systems --- green infrastructures --- stormwater green infrastructure --- Mediterranean climate --- arid climate --- template climate --- Spain --- hazardous waste shipment --- network analysis --- gross domestic product per capita --- disposal --- proximity principle --- self-sufficiency principle --- complex systems --- industrial ecology --- urban-industrial symbiosis --- urban-industrial systems --- urban metabolism --- ecosystem service --- observational scale --- trade-off --- hot/cold-spot --- Ussuri watershed --- country risk --- developing economies --- governance --- institutional quality --- low-income countries --- SDGs --- community empowerment --- energy transition --- rural depopulation --- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)