Microfinance in Southeastern Sierra Leone

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RIV/60460709:41340/15:68611

Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Microfinance in Southeastern Sierra Leone

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

Microfinance in Southeastern Sierra Leone

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AH - Ekonomie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

International Business Management

ISSN

1993-5250

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

9

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

498-507

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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