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ACCESS TO FINANCE AND PERFORMANCE OF SMES IN YANGON ( Hlaing Moe Oo, 2019) Hlaing Moe Oo The purposes of this study are to analyze the effect of entrepreneurial characteristics and SMEs support environment on access to finance for SMEs in Yangon and to identify the effect of access to finance on performance of SMEs. Moreover, this study also aims to examine the moderating effect of investment behaviour on relationship between access to finance and performance of SMEs in Yangon. Based on the survey results, SME owners should have entrepreneurial mind-set and appropriate support environment for their businesses to get better experiences in access to finance. Moreover, the most of respondents have fairly level of access to finance at SMEs in Yangon which influence on performance of SMEs. It can be concluded that the performance of SMEs will be effective and efficient if SME owners can get easily access to finance. Investment behaviour has moderating effect on the relationship between access to finance and financial improvement and access to finance and non-financial improvement. Therefore, SME owners should have good investment behaviour for the development of SMEs’ performance. 2019-12-01 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12678/0000001382 https://meral.edu.mm/records/1382