Determinants of Access to Credit by the Small Business at Binh Thuy District, Can Tho City, Vietnam
Abstract
This paper investigates the “Determinants of households’ business access to bank credit in Binh Thuy district, Can Tho city” which is performed by using the method of directly interviewing 240 business households in 8 wards in Binh Thuy district. By using the Logistics models, the finding show that the access to credit by small business households are significantly affected by education level of householders, capital of household businesses, collateral and income of businesses household. In addition, based on given results, possible solutions to improve the access to credit for business households at Binh Thuy district, Can Tho city have been considered.
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