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Credit Cooperative Lending Loans as Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurship in Africa: Evidence from Ghana

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  • Julius Karl D. Fieve
  • Elie Virgile Chrysostome

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This study examined how credit cooperative loans affect women entrepreneurship. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 women entrepreneurs from three Cooperative Lending groups in the Ashaiman Municipality of Ghana. We found that credit cooperative lending groups support and promote women entrepreneurship by providing their members with access to long-term interest-free credit support to start or expand their businesses. We also found that by providing their members with training and capacity-building opportunities to improve their skills for sustainable businesses and their income to pay back their loans, credit cooperative lending groups significantly contribute to women entrepreneurship. The contribution of this study is that it sheds light on how credit cooperative loans help to alleviate the difficulties that women entrepreneurs of the informal sector in Developing Countries face to have access to financial resources.

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  • Julius Karl D. Fieve & Elie Virgile Chrysostome, 2024. "Credit Cooperative Lending Loans as Challenges and Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurship in Africa: Evidence from Ghana," Journal of African Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(1), pages 94-114, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:wjabxx:v:25:y:2024:i:1:p:94-114
    DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2022.2078937
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