The Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor (ASM) 2021 Volume II was prepared by Shigehiro Shinozaki, senior economist, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department (ERCD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The work was supported by Satoru Yamadera from ERCD’s financial cooperation and integration team. Key findings were discussed at an ERCD seminar held on 17 February 2022.

It benefited from the advice and inputs from Albert Park, chief economist and director general of ERCD; and Joseph Ernest Zveglich Jr., deputy chief economist of ERCD.

The follow-up surveys on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), the Philippines, and Thailand were redesigned based on the first rapid survey conducted in March–April 2020, coordinated, and implemented by a special unit on business surveys under the ASM team, including Shigehiro Shinozaki as team leader and Josephine Penaflor Ferre, ADB consultant.

The online surveys were distributed in the four countries through (i) the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Ministry of Finance; (ii) the Department of SME Promotion of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in the Lao PDR; (iii) the Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprise Development of the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines; and (iv) the Office of Small and Medium Enterprise Promotion, the Thai Credit Guarantee Corporation, and the Thai Chamber of Commerce in Thailand. The online surveys also used ADB Facebook pages, supported by the ADB Department of Communications, Indonesia Resident Mission, Lao PDR Resident Mission, the Philippines Country Office, and Thailand Resident Mission. For the March–April 2021 survey in Indonesia, the online survey was supplemented by field surveys conducted by the local survey firm Yayasan Akademika.

Shigehiro Shinozaki wrote the ASM 2021 Volume II. The special unit of business surveys led data processing.

Administrative support was provided by Richard Supangan and Maria Frederika Bautista.