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2016

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B.E.I.B. And Financial Inclusion In Northwest Cameroon, Kareen Ngendape Atchala Aug 2016

B.E.I.B. And Financial Inclusion In Northwest Cameroon, Kareen Ngendape Atchala

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The Bee Effect Initiative Bank uses an integrated approach to foster financial inclusion in the North West region of Cameroon. This paper has several services under three main themes; economic wellbeing, capacity building, and insurance. Its theory of change and objectives while seeking to make profit centers on creating social change. The mechanics in the paper seek to evoke sustainable economic change in cross sectors- savings, credit, capacity building, and insurance with ROSCAs as target clientele.


Effective General Entrepreneurial Learning Programs For Sme Development, Paul Kenneth Steele Jan 2016

Effective General Entrepreneurial Learning Programs For Sme Development, Paul Kenneth Steele

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The principle objective of this paper is to reexamine the potential for impactful, general programs in education for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) owners by assessing the success of a program called SME PRIME; conducted by AMIDEAST, Oman for six Omani entrepreneurs over a seven-month period.

General programs for entrepreneur education are produced and implemented the world over despite consistent assertions throughout academic literature that such programs are ineffective. Typical approaches to training program development and evaluation emphasize the critical role of training needs analysis. Training needs analysis is often an ignored step in the process of SME training program …