Informal Finance
Factors Influencing Participation of Men and Women in Informal Finance Groups in Gachagi Informal Settlement in Thika Sub-County, Kenya
... the informal finance groups because it was easy to access their savings and they could get loans easily when they needed ...joined informal finance groups because they could access their ...
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Monetary policy and informal finance: Is there a pecking order?
... accessing finance from various non-institutional sources with indicators on economic, financial and social variables, we identify a non-linear impact of monetary policy on informal ...prospective ...
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Determinants of Informal Finance Use in Kenya
... costs, informal finance is likely to have a comparative advantage over formal financial institutions in savings and credit transactions even after removal of inefficient controls, (Burkett, ...formal ...
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Status of men and women’s saving in informal finance groups in Gachagi informal settlement - Thika sub-county, Kenya
... of informal finance groups‟ failure to contribute or delayed contribution would lead to a penalty as agreed upon by the group members and as stipulated in the group ...in informal finance ...
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Influence of Informal Finance on Mothers’ Healthcare in Mtwara, Tanzania
... Maternal mortality is caused by various factors that are either direct or indirect. The former includes factors such as the medical care while the indirect factors such as low socioeconomic status are not emphasized and ...
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Challenges experienced by men and women in informal finance groups in Gachagi informal settlement in Thika Sub-County, Kenya
... The study concludes that men and women in Gachagi informal settlement face various challenges in informal finance groups. Key among them was poor governance, low attendan[r] ...
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Influence of micro economic factors on financial sustainability of informal finance groups in Kiharu constituency-Kenya
... economy, informal finance groups are expected to play a crucial role of poverty alleviation by making available funds to the rural ...of informal finance groups has come under scrutiny due to ...
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Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders
... My predictions are broadly consistent with existing data on formal-informal sector inter- actions. Several accounts from South America illustrate the complementarity between formal and informal ...
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Working Paper 41 - Informal Finance for Private Sector Development in Africa
... The Company was established as a share-holding joint-stock private sector company. The founders consist of nine banks and an insurance Company; in addition to thirty participating banks. Presently, CGC supports small ...
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Formal versus informal finance : evidence from China
... bank finance is associated with higher sales growth, profit reinvestment and ...bank finance are the ones that are politically connected or have been singled out for financing (directed credit) or that ...
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Entrepreneurs and informal finance in Kenya
... Microfinance is presented in Chapter II as a fairly new financial option for entrepreneurs. The existing research on microfinance has found mixed results, especially with respect to female entrepreneurs. There is not ...
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Informal finance: A theory of moneylenders
... wealthier informal lenders often are the exclusive clients of formal banks (rather than poor borrowers) supports the prediction that banks may prefer to channel their capital through the informal ...the ...
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Vulnerability of Tribes Exposed to Informal Source of Finance: A Study of Non-Primitive Tribe Households
... to informal source of finance. As is well known, informal finance entails many negativities which push their clients, mostly poor and low income, into a vicious circle of debt trap, and often ...
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A Comparative Study between Informal and Formal Finance: A Literature Review
... that informal financing affects people’s access to credit in two ...First, informal finance grows banks by allowing long-term formal loans for ...borrowers. Informal credit improves the ...
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Vulnerability of Tribes Exposed to Informal Source of Finance: A Study of Non-Primitive Tribe Households
... to informal source of finance. As is well known, informal finance entails many negativities which push their clients, mostly poor and low income, into a vicious circle of debt trap, and often ...
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Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform
... A reduction in tariff in the protected sector (Y) changes the return of K as formal wage is already fixed at . The return to capital r will fall in both X and Y. But as Px is given Ws must go up leading to an increase in ...
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Informal Economy in Albania
... the informal economy in the politics and economy of a ...the informal economy, but the informal economy rate as a percentage of GDP still remains high (OECD, ...the informal sector helped the ...
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Informal Taxation
... suggest informal tax payments are not analogous to charitable contributions: informal tax payments are an important component of government budgets, payment schedules are set by the leader or group, not by ...
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Informal counter messaging:The potential and perils of the informal counter messaging space
... by informal actors. Informal content has the potential to be seen as more credible by audiences, as well as to be more aggressive in its messages, for example by isolating and ridiculing individual ...
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Finance MBA Master of Finance
... of Finance (MF) program provides students with modern finance theories, sophisticated quantitative tools, high-level applied training, and practical industry knowledge of both Chinese and global markets over a ...
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