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Financial Access Surveys carried out in 2006 in Kenya and Uganda to investigate the socio-economic, demographic and geographical …
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The rapid adoption of mobile money transfer (MMT) in East Africa, and Kenya in particular, is facilitating a nexus of …
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The rapid adoption of mobile money transfer (MMT) in East Africa, and Kenya in particular, is facilitating a nexus of …
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finance, and microcredit/ microfinance. It goes on to discuss various empirical and institutional studies of these dimensions …
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This study investigates the determinants of household participation in credit markets in Malawi using merged comprehensive data from the Integrated Household Survey. We find that larger family sizes increase the probability of households accessing credit from village banks, and that higher...
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This study aims to assess the role of culture as a determinant of financial inclusion, defined with respect to formal account ownership, saving and credit in/from formal financial institutions. A sample of 85 countries, comprising 50 developing and 35 developed countries from the World Bank’s...
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informal financial services in Kenya between 2006 and 2009, including the new and rapidly growing mobile phone-based payments …Policy emphasis for financial sector development has shifted away from microfinance and towards the development of … service—M-PESA. We find that, despite an expansion of services, evidence of access barriers is now clearer than it was in 2006 …
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