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Credit for what? Informal credit as a coping strategy of market women in Northern Ghana

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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 715
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A broad concept of the costs of risk management strategies is introduced and encompasses both a time and monetary dimension. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining complex networks of informal credit providers to insure their access to credit once a shock occurs. Informal credit involves high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term.
Subjects: 
Africa
Ghana
informal finance
coping strategies
intra-household allocation
women
JEL: 
O12
O17
D13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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