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Recovery performance of primary agriculture credit societies in India : an assessment

Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - 2014

credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India … Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments. …

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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...

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The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America

Pencavel, John H. - 2020

A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...

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Welfare effect and elite capture in agricultural cooperatives intervention : evidence from Ethiopian villages

Gelo, Dambala; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2019

This paper evaluates the impact of the Purchase 4 Progress (P4P) intervention implemented by World Food Program in Ethiopia on per capita income as well as across sub-social groups. The intervention is intended to improve the market power of smallholder farmers through cooperatives that has the...

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Seasonal credit constraints and agricultural labor supply : evidence from Zambia

Fink, Guenther; Jack, B. Kelsey; Masiye, Felix - 2014

Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...

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Agricultural credits and agricultural productivity : cross-country evidence

Seven, Unal; Tumen, Semih - 2020

We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...

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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico

Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...

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The effects of access to credit on productivity : separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency

Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises. Using a field experiment involving agricultural...

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Are labor supply decisions consistent with neoclassical preferences? : evidence from Indian boat owners

Gine, Xavier; Martinez-Bravo, Monica; Vidal-Fernandez, … - 2016

supply behavior of boat owners in southern India. …

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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

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