The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has pioneered a credit delivery system with a vision to bring banking services to poor villagers. It extends small collateral-free loans, known as microcredit (or microfinance in broader terms), to group of poor borrowers in order that they may eng…
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This dissertation explores the intersection of economic history, development economics, and land use. In the first chapter, I examine whether imperial legacy causally determines contemporaneous savings behaviors, with considerable attention dedicated to identifying the channels …
This dissertation explores household risk and savings behavior in Zimbabwe, and agricultural technology adoption, and the impact of public investments on the economy and community health in Ethiopia. The first paper analyzes changes in per capita consumption and savings behavior…
The purpose of this study is to show the critical nature of the relationship between financial market reforms and the behavior of domestic savings and investment in Nigeria over the period of 1970 to 1996, and to assess the impact of savings and investment on the growth of the e…
This thesis has two objectives. The first is to analyse the consumption, saving and borrowing behaviour of agricultural households. Specifically, by using the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) as a theoretical framework, and secondary data sources, this thesis argues that consum…
This dissertation is based on the field of Growth, Technology and Development. It consists of three essays based on the JEL Classification system O0. Each essay independently explored Growth, Technology and Development topics. In the first essay, the topic of Causal Relationship…
Fossil fuels are the major sources of electrical power generation in the world. Among all fossil fuels, oil is considered as the most sought-after fuel. The burden on countries that provide subsidized electricity produced from oil-fired power plants is noteworthy. Kuwait is a no…
In a developing oil-based economy like Libya the availability of finance is largely affected by the availability of oil revenues which are subjected to disturbances and shocks. Therefore, the decision to save and invest a certain ratio of the country's aggregate output is, to la…
This dissertation is about the analysis of household survey data from Indonesia. The Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) is mainly used to test theories about household behaviors. In particular, I focus on these issues with respect to savings and risk-sharing behaviors and their…