that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …

We estimate a structural model of borrowing and lending in the illegal money lending market using a unique panel survey …

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural … 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 …

imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises …. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit …

Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …

We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the …

context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya …

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … ; Kenya …