Savings, Credit, and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana
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- Bendig, Mirko & Giesbert, Lena & Steiner, Susan, 2009. "Savings, Credit and Insurance: Household Demand for Formal Financial Services in Rural Ghana," GIGA Working Papers 94, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
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JEL classification:
- G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- R22 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Other Demand
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2009-10-24 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2009-10-24 (Development)
- NEP-IAS-2009-10-24 (Insurance Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2009-10-24 (Microfinance)
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