Using data from microenterprises of the handloom sector in four regions of Ethiopia, the paper shows that clustering … capital market inefficiency, indicating the importance of clustering as an organizational response to a constrained credit …

Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an … the mechanism and performance of clustering. The clustering way of handloom production is observed even in remote rural …

using data from more than 17,000 microenterprises in four sectors and four regions of Ethiopia, we find that clustering … clustering as an organizational response to a credit constrained environment. The findings highlight the importance of cluster …