Working Paper Series: Special Edition of 2016 to 2018 Interns

Appendix 1A

Table 1. Characteristics of Firms No. Firms

No. Firms

No. Firms

No. Firms

No. Firms

Country Jamaica

(%)

Industry

(%)

Ownership

(%)

Legal Structure Shareholding

(%)

Exporter

(%)

242

Manufacturing

714

Exporter

660

Private

1,624

413

(12.31)

(33.57)

(82.60)

(36.32)

(21.02)

772

Services

720

Not Exporter

ECCU

1,306

Government

44

Sole Proprietor

1,552

(39.27)

(36.62)

(66.43)

(2.24)

(78.98)

123

Barbados

Foreign

311

Partnership

532

(6.26) 120 (6.10) 120 (6.10) 122 (6.21) 127 (6.46) 340 (17.29)

(15.82)

(27.06)

Guyana

Suriname

Belize

The Bahamas

Trinidad & Tobago

Appendix 1B Table 2 Mean Proportion of Working Capital Financing by Firm Size.

Larger 56.64 (27.03) 16.34 (17.92) 2.664 (5.956) 19.25 (16.34) 5.097 (12.10)

Medium 58.67 (26.97) 16.32 (20.37) 3.091 (5.869) 18.14 (14.27) 3.766 (10.21)

Small 60.36 (28.36) 14.52 (19.51) 3.180 (5.792) 17.10 (15.26) 4.825 (12.32)

Total 59.20 (27.67) 15.47 (19.65) 3.075 (5.844) 17.79 (15.05) 4.455 (11.53)

Internal Funds

Private Commercial

State Banks

Supplier Credit

*Other

mean coefficients; sd in parentheses *Other includes sources of finance from non-bank financial institutions, family and friends, angel investors equity, credit cards etc.

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