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Women’s Access to Microfinance Services in Southern Ethiopia: Assessing the Promises, Impacts, Challenges and Gaps

In: Efficiency, Equity and Well-Being in Selected African Countries

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  • Mitiku Kebede

    (Addis Ababa University)

  • Nigatu Regassa

    (Addis Ababa University)

Abstract

This study focuses on women’s participation in microfinance institutions (MFIs) and the promises and challenges that this entails. Based on data collected from 11,162 households selected from 43 districts, our results indicate that women’s participation in MFIs is fairly low (only 17 percent); 75 percent of them used borrowed money for income generating activities. This result is substantiated by data collected through focus group discussions and key informant interviews with village elders and microfinance institutions’ staff members. Our logistic regression analysis shows that some household and individual variables such as educational status, size of landholding, age, religion, job status, husband’s education level, family size and use of informal credit sources are the main determinants of women’s participation in microfinance services. The main challenges faced by women in participating in microfinance services include high loan requirements, poor resource mobilization by service providers, high withdrawal rates, a big gender gap in loan disbursements and insufficient entrepreneurial training in skill development and financial outlays. These problems lead to mass dropouts from the system.

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  • Mitiku Kebede & Nigatu Regassa, 2019. "Women’s Access to Microfinance Services in Southern Ethiopia: Assessing the Promises, Impacts, Challenges and Gaps," Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion, and Well-Being, in: Pia Nilsson & Almas Heshmati (ed.), Efficiency, Equity and Well-Being in Selected African Countries, chapter 0, pages 149-165, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:esichp:978-3-030-11419-0_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11419-0_7
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