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This paper reports Tanzanian's bankers' reasons for not giving SMEs the amount they request as loans to finance their businesses. Open ended interviews were used to collect primary data from eight interviews in six commercial banks that serve SMEs and which have been in operation for more than...
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Access to finance is often cited as the most serious constraint by micro, small and medium enterprises in Tanzania. Access is even more difficult for the disadvantaged groups, such as women, youth, the disabled and rural dwellers. Typically, these groups are trapped in a vicious cycle of...
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Microbanks provide financial services to low income people. Governance of these organizations is important for them to efficiently reach poor people and survive financially. Board is one among several governance mechanisms. This paper empirically analyses the influence of stakeholders who sit on...
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Microfinance organizations provide financial services to low income individuals. In this paper I argue that good governance is a precondition for the long run survival of such organizations. The paper discusses importance and roles of stakeholders who sit on boards of microfinance organizations....
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Microfinance organizations provide financial services to low income people. These organizations have been increasing dramatically worldwide. This increment calls attention for these organizations and their boards to make strategic decisions which enable them perform well and compete with each...
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We investigated a sample of 3,098 randomly chosen youth-owned enterprises (YOEs) in Tanzania and studied their access to business development support (BDS) services. YOEs are defined as enterprises owned and run by young entrepreneurs, aged between sixteen and thirty-five, according to the...
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The research on the relationship between executive compensation and firm performance is extensive but has produced inconsistent results and, typically, weak explanatory power. One of cause of these results is use of an incomplete theoretical framework that ignores some variables that are related...
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