The nexus of VSLA participation and financial inclusion among rural women entrepreneurs in Ghana

Akanganngang Joseph Asitik (PhD) is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, School of Business and the Administrator Technology Transfer and Technology Transfer Office at University for Development Studies. His research interest includes entrepreneurial economics, economic development, strategic management and rural development.

Victor Fannam Nunfam (PhD) is Associate Professor of Occupational and Environment Health at the Social Development Section and former Dean of the Centre for Languages and Liberal Studies of Takoradi Technical University. His research interest comprises sustainable entrepreneurship, environmental management, occupational health, climate change and sustainability. He is currently the Dean of the Health and Allied Sciences of Takoradi Technical University.

Michael Kodom (PhD) is Research Fellow at ISSER of the University of Ghana. His research interest focuses on assessing the interlinkages between digitalisation and development. His substantive research areas include digital financial inclusion, health and gender.

Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah (PhD) is Lecturer and Applied Statistician at the School of Science of Edith Cowan University, doing broad consultation on research projects in recreational fisheries, health and medical sciences, nursing and midwifery, social and natural sciences. He is an early career researcher with over 20 published research outputs. His application of statistical techniques spans the areas of design and analysis of experiments, Bayesian modelling and inference, structural equation modelling, unsupervised and supervised machine learning approaches, time series modelling, and advanced statistical modelling, including generalised linear mixed effect models, multilevel models, mixture models, and item response theory (IRT) models.