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Microfinance institution services and women’s socio-economic development in Dodoma municipality-Tanzania

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dc.creator Muyango, Danford Martin
dc.date 2019-09-06T08:39:08Z
dc.date 2019-09-06T08:39:08Z
dc.date 2018
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-06T13:15:58Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-06T13:15:58Z
dc.identifier Muyango, D. M. (2018). Microfinance institution services and women’s socio-economic development in Dodoma municipality-Tanzania (Doctoral thesis). The University of Dodoma, Dodoma.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1798
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1798
dc.description Doctoral thesis (PhD Social Sciences)
dc.description This study was conducted in Dodoma Municipality-Tanzania, aiming at assessing Women’s socio-economic development in relation to their involvement in MFIs. The specific objectives were to examine those micro-credits services and savings attracting women in MFIs, to analyze the women’s activities derived from MFIs services, to assess the current and potential collateralization that make MFIs trust women and to assess the contextual factors influencing women’s socio-economic development. A cross-sectional research design encompassing both purposive and proportionate random sampling was adopted, About 402 respondents were involved. Both Qualitative and Quantitative data obtained and analyzed through SPSS and ANOVA. Findings from this study suggest that women’s socio-economic development will remain at stake despite of their repetitive borrowing in MFIs because there is great disparity between loan application purpose and utilization. The role of MFIs has remained questionable because there are contextual factors that are hardly addressed. These include political, legal framework, culture and lending approaches causing unsustainable purchasing power of women despite of MFIs intervention. Furthermore, MFIs are continuing to exhaust funds from poor to make them even poorer through high interest rates, short tenured small loans imbedded under group lending approach, which are used as survival strategy of MFIs. This study recommends the government through BOT to establish laws that compel MFIs to recognize potential collaterals that are affordable by women and intervene on operations of Non depository taking MFIs particularly control on interest rates.
dc.language en
dc.publisher The University of Dodoma
dc.subject Dodoma
dc.subject Dodoma municipality
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject Microfinance
dc.subject Women development
dc.subject Microfinance institutions
dc.subject Small loans
dc.subject socio-economic development
dc.subject Collateral
dc.title Microfinance institution services and women’s socio-economic development in Dodoma municipality-Tanzania
dc.type Thesis


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