African SMEs’ Performance and Behaviors during COVID-19

Table 2.9: Microloans for SMEs

2- Electricity and power supply

● Total number of respondents: 252

Importance of electricity for the SMEs

In this section, respondents try to determine the importance of electricity as a source of energy to their business practices by highlighting how much they agree/disagree with the statement “Electricity is very important for my business continuity”. The chart tells us that 55% of respondents fnd electricity to be very important, and 27,5% fnd it important while only 9,2% disagree / strongly disagree with the statement signifcant to the fact that electricity is not that important for their business continuity.

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