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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, Robert 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] |