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Micro-Savings & Informal Insurance in Villages: A Field Experiment on Indirect Effects of Financial Deepening on Safety Nets of the Poor
Flory, Jeffrey A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/28/11. Former title: Indirect Effects of Microfinance: A Field Experiment on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020943
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The Relative Cost Efficiencies of Commercial Banks, Rural Financial Institutions, and Microfinance Institutions in China
Wu, Ya; Escalante, Cesar L.; Gunter, Lewell F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
commercial banks, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions in China. The first pairwise comparison indicated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020826
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Impact of Risk and Time Preferences on Responses to Forest Tenure Land Reform: Empirical Evidence from Fujian, China
Sullivan, Karen A.; Uchida, Emi; Xu, Jintao - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
reforms in Fujian, China that began in 2002. The different extent of the reform and its different timing across regions … management responses to forest certification. The results of this paper have wide implications to policymakers in China and … risks and poverty need to be coupled with such reforms in order to increase investment in long-term, productivity enhancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020253
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WAS CHINA’S RATE OF POVERTY REDUCTION EVEN FASTER THAN ROUTINELY ASSUMED? ACCOUNTING FOR THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
Deininger, Klaus W.; Giles, John; Jin, Songqing; Wang, Hui - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916019
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Loan Allocation within Group Lending: New Evidence From Self-Help Group Program in South India
Goto, Jun - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Poster prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2010 AAEA,CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 25-27, 2010.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020757
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Are Women Better Bankers to the Poor? Evidence from Rural Microfinance Institutions
Hartarska, Valentina; Mersland, Roy; Nadolnyak, Denis - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
for the outreach and sustainability goals of Microfinance Institutions. We then evaluate whether outreach efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881525
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Formal Savings Spillovers on Microenterprise Growth and Production Decisions Among Non-Savers in Villages: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Flory, Jeffrey A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
willing to take on higher-risk, higher-reward production activities. To date, little is known about how microfinance affects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916691
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HOW LARGE IS THE COMPETITIVE EDGE THAT U.S.-BASED FUTURES PROVIDE TO U.S. FARMERS?
Lence, Sergio H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004
The present study advocates a simulation approach to analyze quantitatively the impact of having locally-based markets for price derivatives. A major result is that market outcomes do not appear to be sensitive to most of the underlying parameters of the model other than demand elasticity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806717
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The Value and Applicability of Bargaining in an Intergenerational Setting
Howard, Gregory E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
I consider a variation of Coasian bargaining as a policy instrument for internalizing intergenerational externalities. The variation involves appointing a contemporary party to represent the interests of the affected parties who are currently unable to represent themselves, either because they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002476
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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020582