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Financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa

Sarpong, Bernard; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper empirically examines the quantitative relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive growth in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 46 countries for the period 2004–2018. The evidence suggests that usage of financial services, among other covariates, has a quantifiable and...

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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Akcomak, Semih - 2013

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...

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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - 2013

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

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Development in Africa

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018

The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...

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Women financing and household economics

Swamy, Vighneswara; Tulasimala, B. K. - In: Economics, management and financial markets 8 (2013) 3, pp. 19-36

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The impact of microfinance on economic development : the case of Tunisia

Barguellil, Achouak; Bettayeb, Leila - In: International journal of economics and finance 12 (2020) 4, pp. 43-53

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Microcredit and survival microenterprises : the role of market structure

Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-25

Poverty remains a pervasive problem all over the world, but the problem is worst in underdeveloped areas like Africa …. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very … microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been very few that look at market conditions as an input into the success of micro …

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Financial Repression in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714

Temin, Peter; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2005

If financial deepening aids economic growth, then financial repression should be harmful. We use a natural experiment in the change in the English usury laws in 1714 to analyze the effects of interest rate restrictions. We use a sample of individual loan transactions to demonstrate how the...

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Interest rate restrictions in a natural experiment: loan allocation and the change in the usury laws in 1714

Voth, Joachim; Temin, Peter - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2005

This article studies the effects of interest rate restrictions on loan allocation. The British government tightened the usury laws in 1714, reducing the maximum permissible interest rate from 6% to 5%. A sample of individual loan transactions reveals that average loan size and minimum loan size...

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