Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269055 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/22/048
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
Access to finance is perceived as one of the major problems facing businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the structures that support them in their development. This paper aims to measure the probability that a support structure with given characteristics, specific services to entrepreneurs and some technical capacities will face large-scale financial problems. We estimate a multinomial logistic model using a pool of disaggregated data collected by the Nkafu Policy Institute in a survey of 79 business support structures in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ghana in 2021. Our results show that the financial health of a business support structure is not fundamentally dependent on the duration of support, but rather on other factors related to the quality of services offered to entrepreneurs.
Subjects: 
Duration of support
Financial Health of Businesses
Sub-Saharan Africa
Multinomial logit model
JEL: 
C13
C25
M20
O10
O30
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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