Ethnicity and credit in African manufacturing

By Marcel Fafchamps. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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On the determinants of entrepreneurial activity: Social norms, economic environment and individual characteristics (2004, neutral): “There is evidence that trade credit often proxies for informal finance made available through informal networks (Fafchamps, 2000).”
‘Credit Constraints and Determinants of the Cost of Capital in Vietnamese Manufacturing’ (2007, background): “This is contrary to the ndings in Fafchamps (2000) for the manufacturing sector in the African region where a gender bias is found, suggesting the existence of regional di¤erences.”
Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions (2008, background): “Fafchamps (2000) and Fafchamps (2003), for instance, provide evidence that networks facilitate market exchange.”
Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana (2010, neutral): “[23] Fafchamps, M.”
Credit Constraints in Manufacturing Enterprises in Africa (2003, background): “analysed in detail by Cuevas et al. (1993), Fisman (1998), Fafchamps et al. (1995) and Fafchamps (1997, 2000) and is not discussed further in this paper.”
Property Rights in a Flea Market Economy* (2001, background): “…(1999)), longterm relationships between two agents (e.g., Greif (1993), Winn (1994), Ghosh and Ray (1996), Fafchamps (1998)), and joint punishments based on information sharing within business communities (e.g., Bernstein (1992), Posner (1996), Kandori (1992), Greif (1993), Fafchamps (1998)).”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “It may decrease efficiency, for instance, by excluding new entrants from participating in themarket, by applying price collusion and by constraining entrepreneurship (McMillan and Woodruff, 1999; Fafchamps, 2000).”
Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda (2012, background): “Earlier contributions focus on characteristics of the political process (see, e.g., Horowitz 2000), while more recent formal theories study the effect of population characteristics (see, e.g., Esteban and Ray 2011; Rohner 2011).”
Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? (2007, background): “…formation of political parties and the distribution of public resources (Chandra 2004), or why economic activities often take place in ethnic enclaves (Fafchamps 2000)—–tend to focus on a class of social dilemmas not unlike the collective action problems experienced by residents in Mulago-Kyebando.”