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EFFECT OF CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON LOAN PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTERPRISE FUND IN KENYA: A SURVEY OF WOMEN GROUPS IN NAKURU TOWN SUB-COUNTY
No full textFULL TEXTWomen Enterprise Fund as any other credit business is exposed to credit risks. Credit advanced to women by WEF come along with credit risk challenges. How the fund has handled these risks challenges among women is not adequately researched compared to other enterprises or corporations. To the researcher knowledge, there is little documented study done on effect of credit risk management on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund, much of the work done relating to credit risk management practices on financial performance of commercial banks and microfinance institutions creating a research gap. The objective of the study was to analyze effect of credit risk management practices on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund in Kenya. More specifically, the study was to analyze loan appraisal procedure, loan recovery procedure, savings rate and interest rate on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund in Kenya. The study adopted the following theories for the analysis of the objectives; financial economic theory, credit risk theory, adverse selection theory of credit, credit default theory and capital asset pricing theory. One limitation was adequacy of the sample size for generalization of results for the entire women groups in other Sub-Counties by funded WEF. The study delimited this challenge by using representative sample. The study adopted a quantitative longitudinal research design taking women groups funded by Women Enterprise Fund as the target population. The study collected primary data 99 women groups. Regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The findings from the study will inform the policies of the Women Enterprise Fund as government revolving funds on effect of credit risk management practices on loan performance and also broaden scholarship knowledge in the fields like Micro Finance, Developmental Finance and Economics. The study established that saving and lending rates contributed significantly towards loan performance index, this was because saving rate had P=0.0.047<0.05 and P=0.0.000<0.05 respectively indicating that the frequency of women groups savings and the lending rate by WEF contributed significantly towards loan performance index of Women Enterprise Fund Nakuru Town East
EFFECT OF CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON LOAN PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTERPRISE FUND IN KENYA: A SURVEY OF WOMEN GROUPS IN NAKURU TOWN SUB-COUNTY
No full textFULL TEXTWomen Enterprise Fund as any other credit business is exposed to credit risks. Credit advanced to women by WEF come along with credit risk challenges. How the fund has handled these risks challenges among women is not adequately researched compared to other enterprises or corporations. To the researcher knowledge, there is little documented study done on effect of credit risk management on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund, much of the work done relating to credit risk management practices on financial performance of commercial banks and microfinance institutions creating a research gap. The objective of the study was to analyze effect of credit risk management practices on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund in Kenya. More specifically, the study was to analyze loan appraisal procedure, loan recovery procedure, savings rate and interest rate on loan performance of Women Enterprise Fund in Kenya. The study adopted the following theories for the analysis of the objectives; financial economic theory, credit risk theory, adverse selection theory of credit, credit default theory and capital asset pricing theory. One limitation was adequacy of the sample size for generalization of results for the entire women groups in other Sub-Counties by funded WEF. The study delimited this challenge by using representative sample. The study adopted a quantitative longitudinal research design taking women groups funded by Women Enterprise Fund as the target population. The study collected primary data 99 women groups. Regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The findings from the study will inform the policies of the Women Enterprise Fund as government revolving funds on effect of credit risk management practices on loan performance and also broaden scholarship knowledge in the fields like Micro Finance, Developmental Finance and Economics. The study established that saving and lending rates contributed significantly towards loan performance index, this was because saving rate had P=0.0.047<0.05 and P=0.0.000<0.05 respectively indicating that the frequency of women groups savings and the lending rate by WEF contributed significantly towards loan performance index of Women Enterprise Fund Nakuru Town East
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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