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dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially changes the conclusions compared to earlier analysis of the same … dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially changes the conclusions compared to earlier analysis of the same …
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How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent. Fingerprinting...
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Simultaneity of borrowing, withdrawal of savings, and loan defaults due to the pronounced seasonality of agriculture often leads to investment failure of rural financial institutions. Lack of borrowing leads to lack of income- and consumption-smoothing, and in turn, causes inefficient resource...
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Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village moneylender interest rates and households' dependence on informal credit. The views among practitioners diverge sharply: proponents claim that competition of microfinance...
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Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the...
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productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …
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This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …
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-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … share of hired labor in contrast declines substantially in response to a favorable productivity shock, which is consistent …This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …
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This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South … although large dams increase cropland productivity downstream, they have a negative effect on cropland within the vicinity …
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rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of … productivity (at about 30 percent each), mainly by encouraging market-based land transfers. A sustained increase in non …
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