An investigation into rural credit delivery system in Maharashtra shows slower growth in institutional finances through commercial banks, credit cooperatives, RRBs and LDBs, particularly during the decade of 1991-2000, which is mainly due to adverse environment created by the financial sector...

The RFIs operating in the state of Maharashtra of India have not only shown slower growth in their loan advances and other operational indicators during the period between 1991 and 2000 but also poor performance thereafter. The credit cooperatives in particular have shown significantly high NPAs...

Bihar is characterized by excessive dependence of population on agriculture and dominance of small land holders. Small and marginal farmers constitute about 90 per cent of total farm households, whereas farm households owning land less than 0.5 constitute 78 per cent of total farm households and...

To identify the root causes of sugar cane yield and analysis the financial problems faced by cane growers of Sindh. The main aspect pertains to the capital required for adopting innovative farms technologies relied on appropriate expertise either comes from farmers own savings or through...

Pakistan, till today no research institution has been established for the development of potential sugar cane yield production and increase in the recovery rate of the crushed cane. As a result, sugar recovery is hardly 9.5 percent as against 12-14 percent in other world sugar producing...

India's rural households continued to remain financially excluded prominently compared to urban households particularly with respect to their access to institutional credit. Nearly half (44%) of the credit requirements of rural households is still met through non-institutional sources of finance...

The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa futures prices on the London LIFFE and the New York CSCE by means of multivariate GARCH models - under the assumption that traders in perfectly competitive markets have equal access...

This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...

Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed to natural hazards and underdeveloped input and output markets. This is especially true for crop production in CIS countries where many farms have to deal with low liquidity...

This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of credit rationing on the farmer's economic equilibrium and the analysis of different policy scenarios in a derived neoclassical adjustment cost framework. The theoretical model is an optimal dynamic investment model, in which the upper bound on...