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Saving and borrowing behaviour among agropastoralists in West Pokot County, Kenya
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Social Sciences. Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå School of Business and Economics (USBE), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6540-743x
Vi Agroforestry Kenya, Vi Agroforestry, Kitale, Kenya.
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
2021 (English)In: Journal of International Development, ISSN 0954-1748, E-ISSN 1099-1328, Vol. 33, no 6, p. 1043-1062Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Financial inclusion is an important development impetus, where knowledge of saving and borrowing behaviour provides valuable insights. This study focuses on access to and use of financial services among agropastoralists in rural Kenya, using survey-based household data from 2007 and 2017. Surveys show that households with savings increased from about 57% to 71%—coinciding with increased access to financial training and growing use of informal group-based savings organizations. Share of households that had access to credit also increased during this period, from about 26% to 54%. Support to group-based savings organizations can stimulate financial inclusion among agropastoralists. 

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John Wiley & Sons, 2021. Vol. 33, no 6, p. 1043-1062
Keywords [en]
credit access, Kenya, pastoralism, saving, West Pokot
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Economics
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-84950DOI: 10.1002/jid.3560ISI: 000657135000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85107013463OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-84950DiVA, id: diva2:1561245
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Swedish Research Council
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Validerad;2021;Nivå 2;2021-08-17 (johcin)

Available from: 2021-06-07 Created: 2021-06-07 Last updated: 2021-08-17Bibliographically approved

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