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Microfinance Credit-Assisted Microenterprises: Entrepreneurs’ and Businesses’ Characteristics and Their Implication on the Development Needs of Microenterprise-Sector in Kakamega County, Kenya
Get PDFIn developing countries, Kenya included, the microenterprise (ME) sector is key in their development process. In Kakamega County, the sector continues to register remarkable growth than other sectors, employing 30% of the labour force and contributing significantly to households’ incomes and livelihoods. The sector is characterized by variations in entrepreneurs’ and MEs’ characteristics, making any stakeholders’ intervention strategies in its development difficult without appropriate data. However, it is not clear the extent to which entrepreneurs’ and MEs’ characteristics vary, which the study sought to investigate. The study established that significant differences exist in entrepreneurs’ and MEs’ characteristics. To improve the sector, the study recommends policies that will: promote education and training of entrepreneurs in critical skills; encourage entrepreneurs to diversify their businesses/products and income sources in order to increase their incomes; provide credit and improve prices and markets for MEs products and services, among others. Keywords:Microenterprises, Entrepreneurs, Characteristics, Credit demand, Credit Utilization Levels and Business Training Needs DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/82-04 Publication date:July 31st 202
Implication of Microenterprises’ and Entrepreneurs’ Characteristics on Microfinance Credit Demand in Kakamega County, Kenya
Get PDFThe microenterprise (ME) sector is key in Kenya’s development process. In Kakamega County, the sector employs 30% of the labour force and continues to register remarkable growth than the agricultural and wage-employment sectors. The sector, therefore, contributes significantly to households’ incomes and livelihoods. Despite this, the sector exhibits varied entrepreneurs’ and MEs characteristics. Moreover, the sector is faced with a myriad of problems and constraints that affect its development. For instance, entrepreneurs’ inaccessibility to credit from mainstream financial institutions has been one of the major constraints to the development of the sector. However, to address this, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have developed credit-friendly programmes, preferably for entrepreneurs in self-help groups (SHGs). This notwithstanding, there still exist variations in MFIs-credit demand and utilization levels among entrepreneurs. It is however, not clear to what extent entrepreneurs’ and MEs characteristics vary and their role in influencing MFIs-credit demand and utilization levels among entrepreneurs in Kakamega County, which the study sought to investigate. Descriptive research design was used in this study, with a sample of 267 MFIs-credit assisted entrepreneurs drawn using stratified and proportional random sampling techniques. A semi-structured questionnaire, observations and key informant interviews were used to collect data. Data was analyzed using: descriptive statistics; chi-square, correlation and regression analysis. The study found out that significant differences (P<0.05)) exist in entrepreneurs’ and MEs’ characteristics. Moreover, the study found out that even though these factors significantly (P<0.05) influence credit demand levels among entrepreneurs, they only explain 24.9% of credit demand among entrepreneurs. To improve credit demand and utilization levels among entrepreneurs, the study recommends policies that will: promote education to make entrepreneurs less risk averse; encourage entrepreneurs to diversify their sources of income; and aim to improve business incomes and in particular, prices and markets for MEs products and services. Keywords: Microenterprises, Entrepreneurs, Microfinance Institutions, Credit and Demand Levels. DOI: 10.7176/JPID/62-04 Publication date:July 31st 202
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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