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Access to micro-credit well-being among women entrepreneurs in the Mfantsiman Municipality of Ghana

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  • James Atta Peprah

    (Department of Economics, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast)

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Less attention has been given to well-being and other household characteristics that influence clients’ access to micro-credit among women households especially. The paper investigates the determinants of access to credit by 320 women entrepreneurs in the Mfantsiman Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. Data for the study was collected in June-July 2010 from six communities including Mankessim, Saltpond, Anomabu, Biriwa and Yamoransa. Sturctured questionnaires were used to collect the data from women entrepreneurs. The results of the study indicate that clients’ well-being influences access to credit amount. Clients who have been in business for long time are likely to access larger loan amounts. Marital status and education do not influence access to credit. Among the recommendations are that microfinance should not only target clients with high well-being scores but those with low well-being scores since the original aim of microfinance is to lift the poor out of poverty. It is important to give credit to aged business owners instead of young ones. Giving credit to married women because their husbands could serve as guarantors does not matter much but rather women who do not have husbands also need to benefit from micro-credit.

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  • James Atta Peprah, 2012. "Access to micro-credit well-being among women entrepreneurs in the Mfantsiman Municipality of Ghana," International Journal of Finance & Banking Studies, Center for the Strategic Studies in Business and Finance, vol. 1(1), pages 01-14, January.
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