ACCESS TO PUBLIC SOFT LOANS AND JOB CREATION AMONG MARGINALISED GROUPS IN TANZANIA

Manase Micah Kazosi (), John N. Jeckoniah () and Justin Kalisti Urassa ()
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Manase Micah Kazosi: College of Social Sciences and Humanities Morogoro, Tanzania
John N. Jeckoniah: College of Social Sciences and Humanities Morogoro, Tanzania
Justin Kalisti Urassa: College of Social Sciences and Humanities Morogoro, Tanzania

Business Excellence and Management, 2024, vol. 14, issue 2, 87-101

Abstract: Access to soft loans is an important tool in the promotion of self-economic sustenance and job creation. Moreover, globally the rate of unemployment is on the rise and particularly so for the youth and women. Therefore, the study aimed at assessing how access to soft loans issued by local government authority (LGA) contribute to job creation among the marginalised groups in the city of Dodoma, Tanzania. A cross sectional research design was used whereby using a questionnaire, data was collected from 336 randomly selected respondents. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS and STATA whereby both descriptive and inferential statistics were determined. In addition, binomial regression analysis was used to determine factors associated with the marginalised groups’ job creation following their access to LGA soft loans. Generally, findings from the study show that on average two jobs were created by the soft loan beneficiaries. In addition, findings show that the soft loan beneficiaries’ education, soft loan duration and type of income generating activity on which the loans were used were significantly (p ≤ 0.001) associated with job creation (p

Keywords: Soft loans; job creation; local government authority; marginalised groups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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