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Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003

This paper begins by summarizing the micro-evidence on credit markets from a large number of studies from all over the world, with the goal of identifying a number of stylized facts. We argue that, in particular, the evidence strongly suggests that for poor people in developing countries,...

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Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2003

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Does financial development drive private investment in Ghana?

Sakyi, Daniel; Boachie, Micheal Kofi; Immurana, Mustapha - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 4, pp. 1-12

There is ample evidence from economic growth literature that investment accelerates economic growth and development of … focused more on encouraging private sector investment through the development of the financial sector. This paper investigates … the short- and long-run impact of financial development on private investment in Ghana for the years 1970 …

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Can an Agenda for Economic Development Be Premised on an Aggressive Program Built around Microfinance?

Obrimah, Oghenovo A. - 2019

This study provides formal theoretical evidence that an agenda for economic development of a `Village' that is built around an aggressive foray into provision of Microfinance is more likely to fail, than to succeed. The Microfinance strategy fails, because any businesses formed by `Villagers'...

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