African innovations in harnessing farmer assets as collateral

Abstract

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Financial Access and Productivity Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

“…Second, in the light of the theoretical perspective disclosed in Section 2, the extant literature on financial development has documented that enhancing financial access is important in driving investments for employment and output growth, improving household welfare and business operators, inter alia (Odhiambo, 2010(Odhiambo, , 2013(Odhiambo, , 2014Bocher, Alemu, & Kelbore, 2017;Wale & Makina, 2017;Chikalipah, 2017;Daniel, 2017;Osah & Kyobe, 2017;Oben & Sakyi, 2017;Ofori-Sasu, Abor & Osei, 2017;Boadi, Dana, Mertens, & Mensah, 2017;Chapoto & Aboagye, 2017;Iyke & Odhiambo, 2017;Tchamyou, Erreygers, Cassimon, 2019;Tchamyou, 2019aTchamyou, , 2019a. The study contributes to the strand of literature by assessing the nexus between enhancing financial access and productivity because to the best of our knowledge, the contemporary extant literature has not focused on the problem statement.…”

Dynamic openness and finance in Africa

“…The bulk of literature on the link between the underlying nexuses has been premised on the discussed theoretical underpinning (see Reinhart & Loannis, 2008;Galbis, 1993;Galor & Zeira, 1993;Mckinnon & Pill, 1999;Kaminsky & Reinhart, 1999;Demirguc-kunt & Detragiache, 2000;Hellmann et al, 2000;Assefa & Mollick, 2016;Nyasha & Odhiambo, 2016). In what 1 Also see the bulk of recent literature on financial development that has failed to incorporate various dimensions of the FDSD of the World Bank (Fowowe, 2014: Asongu, 2012, 2015Daniel, 2017;Chikalipah, 2017;Wale & Makina, 2017;Osah & Kyobe, 2017;Bocher et al, 2017;Chapoto & Aboagye, 2017;Oben & Sakyi, 2017;Iyke & Odhiambo, 2017).…”

Testing the Quiet Life Hypothesis in the African Banking Industry

“…Moreoover, the bulk of recent financial development literature on Africa has not focused on market power in the banking industry(Daniel, 2017;Fowowe, 2014;Wale & Makina, 2017;Chikalipah, 2017;Bocher et al, 2017;Osah & Kyobe, 2017; Oben & Sakyi, 2017;Ofori-Sasu et al, 2017;Chapoto & Aboagye, 2017; Iyke & Odhiambo, 2017;Boadi et al, 2017).…”