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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 8 Access to finance as obstacle to doing business

From: Firm performance under financial constraints: evidence from sub-Saharan African countries

To what degree access to finance is obstacle to the current operation of this firm?

Frequency

Percentage

Category

No obstacle

620

17.37

Unconstrained

Minor Obstacle

831

23.28

Unconstrained

Moderate obstacle

760

22.13

Constrained

Major obstacle

852

23.87

Constrained

Very severe obstacle

477

13.36

Constrained

  1. The column category shows whether the firm is credit constrained or not based on the perception approach to definition of credit constraint given in section Variables and descriptive statistics