Micro-credit: Financing Fish Production in Nigeria: A Review

Investigating the performance of Qarzat al-Hasna institutions in production as micro-financing institutions in Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of Qarzat al-Hasna institutions as microfinance institutions in Iran. For this purpose, the statistical information of the country's banking system in the period 2009 to 2020 and the panel data method were used. In order to estimate this relationship, diagnostic tests were performed on the research variables and finally the experiment...

An EPQ Model with Increasing Demand and Demand Dependent Production Rate under Trade Credit Financing

This paper investigates an EPQ model with the increasing demand and demand dependent production rate involving the trade credit financing policy, which is seldom reported in the literatures. The model considers the manufacturer was offered by the supplier a delayed payment time. It is assumed that the demand is a linear increasing function of the time and the production rate is proportional to ...

Mortgage Financing in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges

Gender, Investment Financing and Credit Constraints

This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a representative survey of German SMEs for the period from 2003 to 2009. Our results suggest that in female-owned firms the share of internal capital in invest...

SMEs and the credit crunch : Current financing difficulties , policy measures and a review of literature

* Gert Wehinger is a senior economist in the Financial Affairs Division of the OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs. This article is an abbreviated and revised version of a paper prepared for the meeting of the OECD Committee on Financial Markets (CMF) on 17-18 October 2013. It benefitted from the discussions at that meeting and at the meeting of the OECD Working Party on SMEs ...