Both formal, and informal loans matter in agriculture. But formal lenders provide much more in production lending, than … other governments, the Government of Pakistan subsidized the formal scheme on the grounds that lending to agriculture is a …

agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on agricultural fixed capital are rare. Using a … fixed capital in agriculture, based on national accounts data. The fixed capital measure differs remarkably from the Food … and Agriculture Organization's data series on tractors, which has been widely utilized as a proxy for agricultural fixed …

evidence of decreased agricultural investment, increased investment in non-agricultural businesses, and increased migration as … among households who had not previously diversified out of agriculture …

Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a … comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment …, declining foreign direct investment inflows, elevated private debt burdens, heightened political risk, and adverse spillovers …

In countries with limited access to finance, firms accumulate retained earnings to finance indivisible investment … projects. McKinnon (1973) illustrates that when cash is used as a primary store of value, inflation may discourage investment … and provides a simple calibration of the model that suggests sizable effects of inflation on investment. The mechanism is …

Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …

Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 …

Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to …. Nevertheless, even with improvements to the CDM, an under-investment in agricultural land-use projects is likely, since there are …