Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that constrain women petty traders' access to microcredit, and the innovative measures they have initiated in order to counter these constraints. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on in‐depth interviews with women...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors that are responsible for the poor credit recovery among micro‐finance institutions (MFIs) that disbursed a United Nations Development Programme's micro credit in Anambra State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 97 MFIs were...