Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of short-term loan (STL) vs long-term loan (LTL) on wheat productivity of small farms in Sindh, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: The econometric estimation is based on cross-sectional data collected in 2016 from 18 villages in...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of savings mobilization on access to credit among smallholder farmers’ in the Birim central municipality of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional primary data set was used to estimate the factors influencing...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors influencing rural youth farmers’ credit constraints status and the effect of credit constraint on the intensity of participation of these farmers in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: The econometric estimation is based on...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of access to credit on technical efficiency (TE) of maize farmers in a developing country, Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed an instrumental variable approach and the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) method for...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the determinants of rural dwellers financial literacy in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional primary data set was used to estimate the factors influencing rural farm households' financial literacy using the IV-Tobit model. Findings: The...