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"The aim of this paper is to understand the mechanism underlying access to credit. Gine focuses on two important … aspects of rural credit markets in Thailand. First, moneylenders and other informal lenders coexist with formal lending … presumably face sizable transaction costs obtaining external credit. The author develops and estimates a model based on limited …
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The rural space is home to 53 percent of Nigeria's population and more than 70 percent of its poor. While it is well understood in Nigeria that financial exclusion of the rural population stunts development, still fewer than 2 percent of rural households have access to any sort of institutional...
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Nacional de Credito Agropecuario" (National Agricultural Credit System), and related institutions. Nonetheless, current … areas, and, to an outdated model of public intervention in agricultural credit. Recommendations center on a re-direction of …
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rural households, over 70 percent of rural households were found to be credit constrained, and only 9 percent of surveyed …
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rural households, over 70 percent of rural households were found to be credit constrained, and only 9 percent of surveyed …
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The World Bank recently conducted research and concept-testing activities to investigate the expansion of the index approach from drought to flood. The main objective was to assess prerequisite conditions, as well as practical and efficient methods, to conceptualize and potentially implement...
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