| Savings and Development |  |
| ISSN 0393-4551 |
Eric Osei-Assibey
Savings and Development Vol. 33(2009), No. 3, pp. 207-238
The majority of people in Sub-Saharan Africa does not have a basic bank account and are financially excluded from mainstream financial services. This paper examines factors that drive geographic exclusion of banking services to rural communities [...]
Hubert Tchakoute Tchuigoua and Eric Lamarque
Savings and Development Vol. 33(2009), No. 3, pp. 239-264
In the microfinance institutions; which foster the approach to financial services by people excluded from the banking sector; the issue of operational risk management is very little explored. Starting from this observation; the research aims to [...]
Joseph Adjei, Thankom Arun and Farhad Hossain
Savings and Development Vol. 33(2009), No. 3, pp. 265-291
This paper examines the extent to which microfinance has contributed to poverty reduction in Ghana by supporting their clients with both financial and non-financial services to build up their asset base. The study found that participation in the [...]
Osaore Aideyan
Savings and Development Vol. 33(2009), No. 3, pp. 293-317
There is extensive experience in microfinance provision in Africa, but relatively few empirical studies on the social and economic benefits to clients. This paper draws on original surveys of 281 rural households in Southern Nigeria, some of which [...]
Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador and Roberto Arruda De Souza Lima
Savings and Development Vol. 33(2009), No. 3, pp. 319-350
This paper aims to analyze the degree of concentration of loans allocated to agricultural and livestock activities in Brazil for the period 2000-2007 and to assess the distribution pattern of credit among the states, analyzing the extent to which [...]
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