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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 … inequality. While Nigeria's own long history with rural finance shows a clear appreciation for the importance of rural access …
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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 institutions such as government or commercial banks, and more...
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The history of rural - mostly agricultural - finance in Colombia, is characterized by a system which channels benefits to limited numbers of beneficiaries, at the expense of the public sector, and the economy as a whole. A legacy of powerful agricultural lobbies (coffee, livestock) has...
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Over the past five years in Turkey, the agricultural and rural sector has seen substantial change in transfer policies which now place greater emphasis on improved equity and investment. These have been summarized in the earlier World Bank "Review of the Impact of the Reform of Agricultural...
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Over the past five years in Turkey, the agricultural and rural sector has seen substantial change in transfer policies which now place greater emphasis on improved equity and investment. These have been summarized in the earlier World Bank "Review of the Impact of the Reform of Agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557655
The specific objectives of this study are to document, and analyze the extent, and modalities of savings practiced by rural households, and enterprises, identifying the factors that limit, and help explain rural savings in financial form, on the demand, and supply sides, as well as setting forth...
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key drivers of gender gaps in agriculture productivity in Nigeria: women use fewer inputs and have limited participation … gender productivity gaps in Nigeria … use, extension services, and labor productivity; (iii) examine women's participation and inputs use against budget …
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irrigation water. Households with poor health are less likely to adopt productivity-enhancing as well as resource …
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Igniting farm productivity can support growth and job creation in Kosovo. Agricultural production, in real terms, has … productivity and its growth in Kosovo, and implied constraints on growth of agriculture, using farm-level data. The results of the … productivity analysis suggest that in Kosovo there is a considerable misallocation of resources that if remedied can boost growth …
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