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Mainstream financial institutions need to craft culturally sensitive products to penetrate small businesses in arid and semi-arid (Asal) populations, a public policy think tank has recommended.
These products, says the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (Kippra), should go hand in glove with education, which the State-backed agency notes is a determinant of whether a startup will use internal or external finance in its business.
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