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The impacts of financial linkage on sustainability of less-formal financial institutions: Experience of savings and credit co-operative societies in Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Ndiege, Benson O.
dc.contributor.author Qin, Xuezhi
dc.contributor.author Kazungu, Isaac
dc.contributor.author Moshi, John
dc.date.accessioned 2023-11-07T05:09:04Z
dc.date.available 2023-11-07T05:09:04Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.citation Ndiege, B. O., Qin, X., Kazungu, I., Moshi, J. (2014). The impacts of financial linkage on sustainability of less-formal financial institutions: Experience of savings and credit co-operative societies in Tanzania. Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, : www.elsevier.com/locate/jcom. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/701
dc.description A full text article from Co-operative Development and Management en_US
dc.description.abstract The developing economies are experiencing a growing trend of financial Linkage between formal and less-formal financial institutions. Normally, less-formal financial institutions receive loanable funds from formal financial institutions as an approach to meet their financing deficit, while formal financial institutions engage in linkage as a mean to expand business. The main concern of stakeholders regarding this practice is how such linkage can affect the performance of the less-formal financial institutions. In Tanzania, the Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOS) are the most used less-formal financial institutions which are also highly involved in financial linkage. In this study therefore, we used Tanzania SACCOS’ financial statement data, for the period of 2004–2011, and panel data regression model to examine the relationship between financial linkage (measured as financial dependency ratio) and sustainability (measured as Operational Self Sufficiency) of less-formal financial institutions. The findings suggest that the higher the level of financial linkage the more the SACCOS become unsustainable. Implying that, to be sustainable institutions, the SACCOS should try keep away from the use of external funds in their loan portfolio. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management en_US
dc.subject Financial en_US
dc.subject Linkage en_US
dc.subject SACCOS en_US
dc.subject Sustainability en_US
dc.subject Tanzania en_US
dc.title The impacts of financial linkage on sustainability of less-formal financial institutions: Experience of savings and credit co-operative societies in Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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