Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors that are responsible for the poor credit recovery among micro‐finance institutions (MFIs) that disbursed a United Nations Development Programme's micro credit in Anambra State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 97 MFIs were...

Public sector bureaucracies in Africa play important roles in the management of socio‐economic development and change. These tasks impose a number of imperatives on these institutions: they must be effective, efficient, transparent, and results‐oriented. In recent times, public bureaucracies...

The role of entrepreneurship in economic development is increasingly recognized by policymakers and researchers. Entrepreneurship has been advanced as the panacea for youth unemployment and wealth creation. However, studies on the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions have been...