This paper examines the extent to which savings products offered by cooperative societies in some parts of Nigeria meet …

problems and prospects of informal financial institutions in financing agricultural sector in Nigeria using Ado-Ekiti and Oye …-Ekiti Local Government Areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria as case study. This study examines the effect informal finance has on the … activities of agriculture in Nigeria. The methodology employed was descriptive and data were collected using personal oral …

The rural space is home to 53 percent of Nigeria's population and more than 70 percent of its poor. While it is well … understood in Nigeria that financial exclusion of the rural population stunts development, still fewer than 2 percent of rural … inequality. While Nigeria's own long history with rural finance shows a clear appreciation for the importance of rural access …