Access to Credit by Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Relevant is Gender? †

By E. Asiedu, Isaac Kalonda-Kanyama, L. Ndikumana, Akwasi Nti-Addae. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women (2021, background): “These constraints include laws that limit women’s access to and ownership of productive assets (Rakodi 2014), poor access to credit (Asiedu et al. 2013), women bearing disproportionate responsibility for household work (Ferrant, Pesando and Nowacka 2014), and persistent social norms based on the cul”
• Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges (2017, background): “African MSMEs face major financial challenges, which prevent numerous entrepreneurs from exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities (Asiedu et al., 2013).”
• Fearless Woman: Financial Literacy and Stock Market Participation (2021, unknown): “Access to formal financial services, such as credit and savings vehicles, is crucial for entrepreneurship and firm growth (Aterido et al. 2013). Klapper and Parker (2010) survey the gender gap in credit access and find that compared to men, women are less likely to get access to formal financial ins”