This paper reports Tanzanian's bankers' reasons for not giving SMEs the amount they request as loans to finance their businesses. Open ended interviews were used to collect primary data from eight interviews in six commercial banks that serve SMEs and which have been in operation for more than...

We investigated a sample of 3,098 randomly chosen youth-owned enterprises (YOEs) in Tanzania and studied their access to business development support (BDS) services. YOEs are defined as enterprises owned and run by young entrepreneurs, aged between sixteen and thirty-five, according to the...

Microfinance co-operatives (MFCs) are increasingly accessing loans from other financial institutions to finance their lending activities. However, knowledge about the association between loans from other institutions and MFCs’ performance is limited. Therefore this paper contributes to the...