Financial Challenges Facing Urban SMEs under Financial Sector Liberalization in Ghana

By N. Tagoe, E. Nyarko, Ebenezer Anuwa-Amarh. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Relationship between quality management practices and the performance of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana (2008, background): “Some researchers, business executives and managers of SMEs have attributed the failure of SMEs in Ghana and Africa to owner/managers inability to access credit (Adegbite, 1997; Tagoe et al., 2005).”
• Financial resource availability and corporate social responsibility expenditures in a sub‐Saharan economy: The institutional difference hypothesis (2013, background): “…sector is fairly well developed, yet lenders require substantial amounts of collateral, charge high interest rates, and tend to lend only for the short-term to minimize default risk (Abor and Biekpe, 2005; Elkan, 1988; Gwatidzo and Ojah, 2009; Honohan, 2000; Tagoe, Nyarko, and Anuwa-Amarh, 2005).”
• The Barriers to Growth in Ghana (2008, background): “However, there have been very few studies into the barriers and problems encountered by entrepreneurs in Ghana, an emerging or developing nation, and Africa more generally (Mambula, 2002; Tagoe et al. 2005; Trulsson, 2002; Wolf, 2004).”