Access to credit by micro, small and medium enterprises is key for growth and employment. However, it is hindered by information asymmetry. We investigated the effect of mobile telephony and social networks (group networks) on the probability of access to credit by Micro, Small and Medium...

The structure of supply chains has important implications for the propagation of shocks and the dispersion of welfare gains across space. Using transaction-level tax records, we study over four million firm-to-firm relationships of 57,500 formal private sector firms in Kenya. We find that the...