Microfinance in Southeastern Sierra Leone

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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41340/15:68611
Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Microfinance in Southeastern Sierra Leone
Original language description
Microfinance institutions are primarily set up to avoid financial marginalization between poor people and formal banking institutions. Thus, it is suppose to be a social tool that is employed to mitigate poverty by providing access to financial serviceswithout unaffordable collateral securities but over the years this very purpose has been apparently called into question by the exploitative tendencies of its practitioners, especially in Sierra Leone. This study is set about to expose the inadequacies of microfinance activities in Sierra Leone and to warrant a rethink of the operations of the institutions, inorder to serve its core purpose. A sample group of 400 clients from Bari chiefdom in the Southern Province, Pujehun District are supported by a microfinance institution while the other sample group of 400 non-clients from Niawa chiefdom in the Eastern Province, Kenema District, a non microfinance-supported zone are compared using four key indicators of poverty assessment. The compa
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AH - Economics
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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