Microfinance Lending Services as a Tool for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Development in Uasin Gishu County

Sustainable development is gathering momentum in public discourse, and   greater attention and reverence in academic research. This study sought to asses’ Microfinance lending services as a tool for sustainable entrepreneurship development in Uasin Gishu County. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The target population was employees in Microfinance institutions. The study employed cross-sectional survey design. Questionnaires were used to collect data from  114 employees. The data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Finding suggests MFIs lending services influenced entrepreneurship development and it further influence Microenterprises growth and innovation. This study recommends that microfinance institutions should consider engaging strategic leading programmers to gain competitive advantage and provide innovative dynamic business growth. Keywords: Micro-finance, Lending, Sustainable, Entrepreneurshi

Policy, Institutions and Aid Effectiveness in Developing Nations: Literature Revisited

This paper is an attempt to investigate policy and institutions aid effectiveness from various contributions made by past scholars. It was found that good policy environment and institutions were good for aid effectiveness. However, aid was also found to enhance good policy especially where past and present policy is bad. This argument was however highly contested by a number of researchers saying that it’s not policy alone that enhances aid effectiveness but other factors like external shocks. Political stability enhances aid effectiveness, though aid in repressive regimes was also found to be as effective to a given degree. The main lesson learned from this research is not to deny the role of policy and institutions in aid effectiveness but to consider its role in a dynamic and broader context. Keywords: Aid, Effectiveness, policy, countries, institution