Search Results - subject:"Informal Financing"

The role of formal and informal financing in refugee self-employment : the case of rrban Kenya

Arisa, Linet Nyanchama - In: Economies : open access journal 13 (2025) 4, pp. 1-21

informal financing in self-employment while also looking at the drivers of financing decisions and self-employment among … informal financing to be significantly associated with an individual's decision to be self-employed, while formal financing is … not. Male refugees who access informal financing have a higher probability of embracing self-employment than refugee women …

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Implications of macroeconomic risks on NHFC'S incremental housing finance in South Africa

Oladeji, Jonathan Damilola; Zulch (Kotze), Benita; … - In: International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis 16 (2023) 7, pp. 80-102

Purpose The challenge of accessibility to adequate housing in several countries by a large percentage of citizens has given rise to different housing programs designed to facilitate access to affordable housing. In South Africa, the National Housing Finance Corporation (NHFC) was created to...

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Confucian culture and informal household financing : evidence from China's counties

Hou, Xiaohui; Yang, Rui; Liu, Chun - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 22 (2022) 5, pp. 1005-1019

A growing body of literature is investigating the social and cultural determinants of household financing activity. This paper examines the impact of traditional culture, specifically Confucian culture in China, on informal household financing at the county level. We find that Confucian culture...

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Cultural preferences and the choice between formal and informal financing

Bedendo, Mascia; Garcia-Appendini, Emilia; Siming, Linus - 2017

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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme

Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014

This paper exploits a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare programme in Brazil to investigate the importance of credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on how liquidity shocks change recipients' behaviour...

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Direct and Indirect Effects of Cash Transfers on Entrepreneurship

Ribas, Rafael P. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

This paper exploits a liquidity shock from a large-scale welfare program in Brazil to investigate the importance of credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on how liquidity shocks change recipients’ behavior...

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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship : direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme

Ribas, Rafael Pérez - 2014

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Entrepreneurship and Development : The Role of Information Asymmetries

Klapper, Leora F.; Love, Inessa - In: The World Bank Economic Review 25 (2011) 3, pp. 448-455

This article reviews the literature on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development and introduces four symposium articles. A common thread is that information asymmetries are important determinants of access to finance in young entrepreneurial firms. Policy recommendations...

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The Impact of the Business Environment on Young Firm Financing

Chavis, Larry W.; Klapper, Leora F.; Love, Inessa - In: The World Bank Economic Review 25 (2011) 3, pp. 486-507

countries younger firms rely less on bank financing and more on informal financing. There is a clear substitution effect: as …

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