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Oil Exports, Socio-economic Underdevelopment and United States' Trade Relations with Nigeria

This paper applied a quantitative research design to explore the nature of burial society stokvels in South Africa. Furthermore, the benefits accruing to members were examined. Prior studies have generally focused on mobilization of savings from households through stokvels. None have paid particular attention to the nature and benefits of participating in burial society stokvels as a conduit for savings mobilisation. This study attempts to fill this gap by using a self-administered research questionnaire on a sample of 386 respondents. Members of stokvels were surveyed from the cities of Preto…