2010

A microeconometric analysis of household savings determinants in Morocco

Touhami Abdelkhalek, Florence Arestoff, De Freitas and Sabine Mage
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2010, pp. 7-27

This article provides an analysis of the microeconomic determinants of household savings behaviour in Morocco according to geographical household residence. Descriptive statistics seem to indicate a similar savings pattern in both rural and urban [...]

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La réglementation a-t-elle un impact sur les performances de la microfinance? Le cas du Cameroun

Jean Pierre Fouda Owoundi
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2010, pp. 29-58

Microfinance regulation is currently a highly debated topic in view of the increasing interest on the issue by the international community. In this paper we investigate its impact on performance of microfinance institutions using OLS regressions [...]

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Testing the impact of foreign aid on domestic private investment in West Africa

Eberechukwu Uneze
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2010, pp. 59-84

Drawing on the vast literature on aid allocation, this paper examines whether foreign aid has any impact on private investment in West Africa, controlling for other determinants of private investment. Following from this, the paper investigates [...]

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Sensitivity of loan size to lending rates evidence from Ghana’s microfinance sector

Samuel Kobina Annim
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2010, pp. 85-107

This study examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size. Cross section data on 1800 households (698 clients and 1102 non-clients) from Ghana is used to test the hypothesis of loan price [...]

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Paying for community-based health insurance schemes in rural Nigeria: the use of in-king payments

William M. Fonta, H. Eme Ichoku and John E. Ataguba
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2010, pp. 109-128

Financing healthcare for the poor is one major challenge facing the world’s poorest populations in developing countries. While over 90% of the global burden of disease is borne by over 80%, only about 11% of global health spending is on the poor. [...]

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