2008

Demographic structure and private savings: some evidence from emerging markets

Jehad Yasin
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2008, pp. 7-21

This paper tests the life cycle hypothesis that private saving rises with a higher percentage of working population and fall with higher percentages of the young and retired groups. Consistent with this hypothesis, our results from annual data for [...]

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Développement financier et croissance economique en Mauritanie: opportunités et conditions

Ould Sidi Mohamed El Moustapha
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2008, pp. 23-44

Financial sector development should be positively judged as it improves effectiveness of the financial system and widens the savings and credit products offer; which improves long term economic growth. In this view; and with reference to the [...]

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Access to credit and its effect on the adoption of agricultural technologies: che case of Zanzibar

Khalid S. Mohamed and Andrew E. Temu
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2008, pp. 45-89

Access to credit is among key elements for improving agricultural production and poverty reduction. Credit can facilitate farm households to purchase the needed agricultural inputs and enhance their capacity to effect long-term investment in their [...]

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Déterminants de la durée de retard de remboursement des microcrédits individuels: application l’un modèle de durée

Ben Soltane Bassem
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2008, pp. 91-116

The purpose of this research is to analyze the determinants of the duration of repayment delay in the individual microcredits granted by the Tunisian microfinance institutions. The methodology adopted in this analysis is relatively recent in the [...]

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Successes in expanding microfinance opportunities in rural Ethiopia: can the entrepreneurship challenge be overcome?

Getaneh Gobezie
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2008, pp. 117-131

Microfinance opportunities have been successfully expanding in Ethiopia during the past fifteen years, including in remote villages, where the majority of people are engaged in smallscale agriculture, which is little supported by modern technology. [...]

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