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Title:Does the Group Leader Matter? The Impact of Monitoring Activities and Social Ties of Group Leaders on the Repayment Performance of Group-Based Lending in Eritrea
Authors:Hermes, Niels
Lensink, RobertISNI
Mehrteab, Habteab T.
Year:2006
Periodical:African Development Review
Volume:18
Issue:1
Period:April
Pages:72-97
Language:English
Geographic term:Eritrea
Subjects:loans
groups
social relations
debt repayment
Economics and Trade
Development and Technology
External link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2006.00133.x/pdf
Abstract:This paper analyses whether the effects of monitoring and social ties of the group leader and other group members on repayment performance of groups differ, using data from an extensive questionnaire held in Eritrea among participants of 102 groups in 2000. The authors hypothesize that the monitoring activities and social ties of the group leader have a stronger positive impact on the repayment performance of groups. The results show that the social ties of the group leader do have a positive effect on repayment performance of groups, whereas this is not true for the social ties of other group members. The authors do not find evidence for the hypothesis that monitoring activities of the group leader have a stronger positive impact on group repayment performance. All variables measuring monitoring activities, either of the group leader or the other group members, are found to be statistically insignificant. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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