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Does Local Access to Finance Matter? Evidence from U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Shale Booms

Management Sciences, 2019
I use recent oil and natural gas shale discoveries in the U.S. as a natural experiment to identify the importance of local access to finance for local economic outcomes. Development of shale resources has led to large unexpected personal wealth windfalls,
E. Gilje
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SMEs' Access to Debt Finance

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2006
This study compares the use of external debt finance by male-and female-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana to determine whether female-owned firms are less likely to use debt as a source of financing their operations. The results indicate that the capital structure of SMEs is influenced by the legal form, location, size, age and ...
Joshua Abor, Nicholas Biekpe
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Access to Finance

2017
Microinsurance provides indemnity for those with low income and with limited access to insurance options. Aimed at supporting sustainable means of living for individuals, microinsurance is a market-based practice. Many microinsurance products focus on the famine and drought in Latin America, Africa and Asia and most commonly provided by European ...
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Access to finance and entrepreneurial intention

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2019
PurposeAppreciating the need to foster entrepreneurship in Madagascan rural areas and acknowledging that many unanswered questions remain regards testing the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the study aims to apply and extend the TPB model by ...
B. Urban, F. A. Ratsimanetrimanana
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Does Access to Finance Enhance SME Innovation and Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Survey

African Development Review, 2018
The primary link between financial institutions and economic performance is the provision of resources by these institutions to businesses in order to drive enterprise development.
A. Adegboye, Samuel Iweriebor
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Creditworthiness and access to finance: a study of SMEs in the Malaysian manufacturing industry

, 2019
The purpose of this study is to empirically assess the relationship between the dimensions of creditworthiness and access to finance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia, with creditworthiness as the mediating variable.
Shaista Wasiuzzaman, Nabila Nurdin, Aznur Hajar Abdullah, Gowrie Vinayan   +3 more
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Resource sharing in interfirm alliances between SMEs and large firms and SME access to finance

, 2019
This study aims to investigate the role of interfirm alliances in the form of resource sharing in influencing the access to finance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia.
Shaista Wasiuzzaman
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Regulation and Access to Finance

2011
Notwithstanding the financial crisis, housing finance remains a booming industry globally with strong growth potential in developing economies. Especially in the subset of countries dubbed ‘emerging markets’, the sector’s risk environment and available risk management options have changed dramatically in the past two decades reflected by low inflation,
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ICT adoption, innovation, and SMEs’ access to finance

Telecommunications Policy, 2021
Rizwan Mushtaq, Ammar Ali Gull, M. Usman
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Access to Finance in Kyrgyzstan

International Conference on Eurasian Economies
The access to financial services is crucial for economic development and poverty reduction in Kyrgyzstan. There are a number of factors limiting financial inclusion such as financial, social and economic development. Capital shortage and low access to financial services cause difficulties for economic agents’ saving and borrowing.
Ainura Turdalieva, Razia Abdieva
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