Microfinance is seen as a key development tool, and despite the current deepening crisis within the industry, it continues to grow in sub-Saharan Africa. We systematically reviewed the evidence of the impacts of micro-credit and micro-savings on poor people in sub-Saharan Africa. We considered...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to obtain estimates and confidence intervals for welfareindices under complex sampling. It begins by looking at sampling in general withspecific focus on complex sampling and weighting. For the estimation of the welfareindices, two resampling...

In recent times many theories have surfaced posing challenging threats to the Efficient Market Hypothesis. We are entering an exciting era of financial economics fueled by the urge to have a better understanding of the intricate workings of financial markets. Many studies are emerging that...

In this paper recent results of [6]Ann. Statist.5 110-123] are used to obtain the asymptotic null distribution of a weighted Cramér-von Mises type test for independence. We use approximate Bahadur slopes to find good weight functions for certain alternatives. Some percentage points of the...