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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 …
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, 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 …
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Farmers in rural Bangladesh face multiple sources of uninsured risk to agricultural production and household assets. In … group savings does not alter demand for insurance, though group savings is found to be a particularly popular risk …
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Using a participatory rural appraisal approach, a series of qualitative studies were conducted in four countries facing negative impacts of climate change—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali—in order to determine men’s and women’s perceptions of climate change,...
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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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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 …
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This paper analyzes the repayment rates of credit groups belonging to three group-based credit programs in Bangladesh …
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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 …
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information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential …
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