We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We …

through text messages in Kenya and Rwanda. The programs shared similar objectives but were implemented by three different …

of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal …

Not all firms have equal capacity to absorb productive credit. Identifying those with higher potential may have large …

growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and … medium enterprises in Brazil. Local credit supply shocks generate greater firm entry but also greater exit with no effect on …

Firms in developing countries cite credit constraints as one of their primary obstacles to investment. Direct foreign … investment, by bringing in scarce capital, may ease domestic firms' credit constraints. Alternatively, if foreign firms borrow … heavily from domestic banks, they may exacerbate domestic firms' credit constraints by crowding them out of domestic capital …