| dc.creator |
Schindler, Kati |
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| dc.date |
2006 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T07:07:10Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T07:07:10Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19856 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:517922460 |
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| dc.identifier |
RePEc:zbw:gdec06:4761 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19856 |
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| dc.description |
This paper analyzes the use of informal credit as a coping strategy against risk by market women in the city of Tamale, Ghana. Using qualitative research techniques, the analysis reveals that intra-household structure and allocation decisions determine these market-based coping strategies. Market women invest a considerable amount of working hours in maintaining complex credit networks as a safeguard against extreme risks. As a policy implication, this research suggests to provide market women with access to formal, reliable and long-term microfinance institutions, both to improve their ability to cope with risks and to reduce the risks they face. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
|
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| dc.relation |
Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2006 / Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics 24 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
O17 |
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| dc.subject |
D13 |
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| dc.subject |
O12 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
micro-credit |
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| dc.subject |
informal markets |
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| dc.subject |
networks |
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| dc.subject |
coping strategies |
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| dc.subject |
intra-household allocation |
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| dc.subject |
women |
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| dc.subject |
Ghana |
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| dc.title |
Credit for what? Informal credit as a coping strategy of market women in northern Ghana |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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