Inessa Love is Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Previously, she worked at the World Bank in the Development Research Group on financial sector assessments, improving access to finance, and evaluating business environment reforms. Her research has focused on financial sector development, corporate finance, small and medium enterprise financing, impact evaluation, and financial crisis. She has been a part of an ongoing project that collects and analyses worldwide data on entrepreneurship sponsored by the Kaufman Foundation.