, misalignment leads mainly to problems of access to external credit and to a lesser extent to problems of internal cohesion. To …

"This paper examines the impact of cooperatives on smallholder commercialization of cereals, using detailed household … data from rural Ethiopia. We review the involvement of cooperatives, in terms of who participates and where they are … located. We then use the strong government role in promoting the establishment of cooperatives to assume that the decision of …

,117 households and 73 agricultural cooperatives. Using descriptive statistics and econometric analysis under a critical gender lens … in agricultural cooperatives. The findings suggest that a major barrier to women’s access are gender biases within … households, communities, and cooperatives themselves that favor educated male household heads and land owners over resource …

poor might be resolved by access to credit alone -- the ability to acquire assets, to start businesses, to finance … rises from conventional banks and finance companies. Analyzing the failures of credit programs aimed at small farmers and …

Before the late 1970s, rural dwellers in Ghana had almost no access to institutional credit for farm and nonfarm … response to this situation, the Government of Ghana took several measures to increase access to credit in rural areas …

, particularly in credit markets. Recent research reveals that biometric technology can help reduce these problems. A biometric is a … implemented in India by the Unique Identification Authority of India. Biometric technology can also improve access to credit and …

This paper analyzes the repayment rates of credit groups belonging to three group-based credit programs in Bangladesh …

organizational choice can overcome the prohibitive cost of investment. When facing credit constraints, firms are more likely to … market. The observed rate of returns to capital is closely related to the organizational choice under credit constraints …

information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential …