Resource Links:

• Predicting Creditworthiness With Publically Observable Characteristics: Evidence From ASCRAs and RoSCAs in the Gambia - Mark Schreiner

Gambia Microfinance Network (GAMFINET) A member of Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN)

Contact address: c/o The Gambia Women's Finance Association (GAWFA) PMB 81 Banjul The Gambia Contact: Mr. Tijan Bangura, Executive Director Phone: (220) 395-228 Fax: (220) 397-062 Email: GAWFA@gamtel.gm

Country Bibliography:
• Nagarajan, G. and R. L. Meyer (1995). “Incorporating finance into a modified subsector framework: the fertilizer subsector in the Gambia.” World Development 23(7): 1115-27.
• Nagarajan, G., R. Meyer, et al. (1995). “Effects of NGO Financial Intermediation on indigenous self help village groups in The Gambia.” Development Policy Review 13.
• Shipton, P. (1990). How Gambians Save. Washington DC, World Bank.
• Shipton, P. (1994). Time and Money in the Western Sahel: A Clash of Cultures in Gambian Rural Finance. Anthropoloy and Institutional Economcis. J. M. Acheson. Lanham, University Press of America: 283-327.
• Taal, H. (1989). “How farmers cope with risk and stress in rural Gambia.” IDS Bulletin 20(2): 16-22.