Individual participation in the emerging stock market, such as the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE), is growing, although it covers only 2 per cent of the working population in Tanzania. This study examined socio-economic ...

Efficient utilization of resources is critical for effective performance of banks. This paper measured efficiency of community banks in Tanzania and compares performance between two community banks categories during 2002 ...

This paper reports the findings of a study that had evaluated the influence of board attributes size, gender diversity, skills and meetings on board’s role performance in terms of strategic, resource provision and monitoring ...

Skills and knowledge acquired through Vocational Education and Training (VET) have much potential for improving performance among firms owned by selfemployed VET graduates. However, studies debate on whether such skills ...

The Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS) which are co-operative financial models are flourishing in most of the developing economies recently. However, loan repayment capacity remains a challenge that threatens ...

Co-operative like any other institution has various performance measurement aspects that can be grouped into financial aspect and non-financial aspect. The non-financial aspect can be also subdivided into learning and ...

While the issue of bank stability is being given more emphasis by most of banks’ stakeholders worldwide, many developing countries are busy promoting policies which aim at increasing the level of banking inclusion in their ...

Over a span of years efficiency in Tanzanian Community Banks (CBs) has been low. The specific and macroeconomic drivers of inefficiency, however, have not been uncovered. Using tobit regression and triangulation methods ...