This study was conducted from 37 rural SACCOS in Morogoro, Dodoma and Kilimanjaro regions in Tanzania to assess the influence of credits risk management on rural SACCOS' profitability. The study applied univariate regression model where ROA and ROE were the proxies for profitability and Non...

This study applied the paired t-test and logistic regression analysis to assess the impacts of the rural SACCOS' loans on borrowers in Tanzania where 431 borrowers from 37 rural SACCOS in Morogoro, Dodoma and Kilimanjaro regions were involved. The study noted that 73.5% of the rural SACCOS'...

The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...

The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...

At the macro level, savings mobilization plays an important role in economic growth and development whilst at the micro household level it plays a critical role in production, consumption and investment decisions. However, savings mobilization in many developing countries remains low which calls...

Their institutional weakness and obvious lack of formal organizational structures notwithstanding, rural informal savings and credit associations persist and remain extremely popular among the very poor in the society. This paper hypothesis that this is because they are able to resolve the...