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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Financial Constraint"”.
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The effect of financial development, financial agglomeration, and financial constraint on China’s economic development
It has been generally acknowledged that financial development has been critical to economic growth for several decades. Nonetheless, the empirical evidence supporting the association between financial development and economic growth is inconclusive. The majority of existing studies mainly concerned …
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Dysfunctional market or insufficient creditworthiness? : an exploration of financial constraint experienced by small, medium and micro enterprises in South Africa
The existence and prevalence of financial constraints has been extensively discussed in the international economic literature, and is implicit in debates on the performance and needs of South Africa’s Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). However, there is little solid research measuring …
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Examining agricultural investment
… relationship between a firm's investment and its financial variables is examined. Imperfections in the credit market such as asymmetric information have led researchers to explore these relationships. This study incorporates the 5 Cs of lending (character, capacity, collateral, credit rating, and …
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Two Essays on Financial Condition of Firms
… includes two related chapters that analyze financial condition of firms. In the first chapter, I examine the relationship between the firms' level of cash holdings and governance. The findings show that higher levels of cash holdings are significantly related to strong governance. The …
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A theoretical and empirical exploration into the heterogeneous fragility of Chilean firms and workplaces
… a model of heterogeneity in an economy with financial constraints. The main issue in the model is to characterize the entrepreneurs and firms that are affected by shocks or policy innovations. The model delivers a dual margin composed of a segment of relatively poorer but more productive …
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Effectiveness of Civil Society Organizations in advocating Change in the Society: A Case of Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA)
… operational related limitations which included financial constraint and lack of government support. Also community related limitations which included low level of community awareness and cultural barriers. The study recommends that, the government should formally recognize the contributions made …
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Winners and Losers: Between Bank Loan and Small Medium Enterprises Equity Investment Scheme (SMEEIS) as Funding Sources for Northern Nigerian SMEs
… the sector, notable among which is the financial constraint. The creation of Small Medium Enterprise Equity Investment Scheme (SMEEIS) was necessitated by the desire of the private sector to complement government’s effort of supporting the Small and Medium Enterprises subsector. What is …
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Essays on the financial constraints and related firm behaviour: the case of Pakistan
… the understanding of the suitable measures of financial constraints for the case of a developing country and the effects of financial constraints on firm‟s activities. In this respect, we employ data for Pakistani listed non-financial firms from 2006 to 2015, check the presence of financial …
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The effect of household poverty trap on learners’ performance in secondary schools in Nongoma in the Zululand district.
… that learner’s academics performance affected by financial constraint, poor health due to lack of good food, delinquent behavior, child abuse and prostitution ,the long distance to and from school , stigmatization and stereotyping , school drop –out and absenteeism . This study recommend rural …
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Creative financing for energy efficiency in China through energy management companies
… financing because I believe that financial constraint is one of the most critical barriers to energy-efficiency projects. The concept of the Energy service companies (ESCO) is a financing innovation of energy efficiency projects that has been widely used in North America and Europe …
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Essays on entrepreneurship
It is often argued that borrowing constraints are crucial to the understanding of entrepreneurial activity in the United States. However, portfolio data and calibration exercises raise doubts about the importance of borrowing constraints. This thesis provides three chapters on the subject of …
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Exploring strategies to fund and manage school development funds in public secondary schools in the Khomas region in Namibia
… towards quality education for all. Educational financial constraint issues came to the fore, when the announcement was made by the Minister of Finance that the paying of compulsory school fees for secondary education will be abolished as from the beginning of the 2016 academic year. Although …
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Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Under Changing Information Asymmetry
… groups of firms classified into more or less financially constrained groups based on some measure of perceived financial constraint. These studies report conflicting results depending on the classification scheme used to stratify the sample. They have been criticized on conceptual and …
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Three essays on banking
… The third essay investigates if the funding constraints of small banks are crucial to bank performance conditional on loan growth. The empirical findings suggest that the differences in loan growth as well as subsequent performance between small and large U.S. banks are in part driven by the …