Duration of support and financial health of business support structures in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana: A micro-econometric analysis

Autor: Kouam, Jean C., Asongu, Simplice, Meh, Bin Joachem, Nantchouang, Robert, Asanga, Fri L., Foretia, Denis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Popis: Access to finance is perceived as one of the major problems facing businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the structures that support them in their development. This paper aims to measure the probability that a support structure with given characteristics, specific services to entrepreneurs and some technical capacities will face large-scale financial problems. We estimate a multinomial logistic model using a pool of disaggregated data collected by the Nkafu Policy Institute in a survey of 79 business support structures in Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ghana in 2021. Our results show that the financial health of a business support structure is not fundamentally dependent on the duration of support, but rather on other factors related to the quality of services offered to entrepreneurs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE