Konferenzbeitrag
Credit for what? Informal credit as a coping strategy of market women in northern Ghana
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2006 ; No. 24
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Thema
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micro-credit
informal markets
networks
coping strategies
intra-household allocation
women
Ghana
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schindler, Kati
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
- (wo)
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Hannover
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Schindler, Kati
- Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
Entstanden
- 2006
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