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Emeka Osuji
The challenge and value of self-regulation in…
The financial services sector has been identified as the most regulated sector in the world. Governments, in all…
Consumption smoothing and life cycle hypothesis in…
I recently wrote here that microfinance without microinsurance was bound to fail the poor when they need help the…
SMEs: Scaling-up to scale through
Growing an SME and making a success of it is like parenting – raising children. If you ask parents why their…
Need for stakeholders to promote the Collateral Registry
Nigerians have been so busy lately trying to resolve issues in the meaning of the term “Restructuring”. As a…
Collateral registry, informal sector and the place of…
Some of you might say they had read me on this subject before. Well I wasn’t done then. Besides, this issue…
A vote for Red Star Express and her 1000 SMEs
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been trending recently. Most organizations would not end…
SME sector must also restructure
Nigeria is becoming an unbearably harsh and noisy place. And this has nothing to do with the sound of sirens used…
Credit Infrastructure Modernisation: Two down, more to…
The recently passed laws on credit registration and reporting are very big steps in the improvement of Nigeria’s…
Making the most of Collateral Registry and Credit…
There is no controversy as to whether finance is a major constraint facing the MSME sector. It is settled. What…
Discarding obfuscating shibboleths in microfinance
The problem with notions is that they are often vague, misleading and mostly wrong. In all cases, vague, misleading…
How eleemosynary economics hurts SMEs
Last week, we called attention to the role which freebees could play in shaping the conduct of economic agents,…
Over-dependence on incentives hurts SME capacity…
Most people would easily classify Nigeria as an educationally unfriendly country; going by the proportion of its…