@techreport{Schindler2006Credit,
abstract = {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.},
author = {Kati Schindler},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {O17; D13; O12; 330; micro-credit; informal markets; networks; coping strategies; intra-household allocation; women; Ghana},
language = {eng},
number = {24},
title = {Credit for what? Informal credit as a coping strategy of market women in northern Ghana},
type = {Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Berlin 2006 / Verein f\"{u}r Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19856},
year = {2006}
}
