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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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How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016

success of banking reforms in India where significant banking reforms have been introduced since 1990s. Using the argument …

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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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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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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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The labor supply of self-employed workers : the choice of working hours in worker co-ops

Pencavel, John H. - 2014

Workers in cooperatives are self-employed workers and, if they resemble employees in conventional workplaces, they care about the length of their working hours. In this paper, their choice of hours is characterized as a conventional labor supply decision and a familiar hours-wage relationship is...

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Worker cooperatives and democratic governance

Pencavel, John H. - 2012

A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective …

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The economic preferences of cooperative managers

Alves, Guillermo; Blanchard, Pablo; Burdín, Gabriel; … - 2019

A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers' behavioural profile in noninvestor-owned firms. This paper aims to fill this gap by...

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Creating an efficient culture of cooperation

Fehr, Ernst; Williams, Tony - 2017

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of public goods. However, a considerable body of evidence suggests that informal peer sanctions cause large collateral damage and efficiency costs....

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