Microfinance against the Resource Curse? Lessons for Ghana to learn from Botswana: How to Transfer National Resource Wealth into Economic Development with the Help of an Inclusive Financial Sector

Scientific Study from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: A , IE Business School, Madrid, language: English, abstract: This paper creates a linkage between the two at first sight unrelated concepts of the resource curse phenomenon, and financial inclusion with an emphasis on microfinance. I posit that in certain states of financial inclusion and with specific public policies for the financial sector and microfinance, the resource curse can be ave...