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This review examines portions of the vast literature on rural financial markets and household behavior in the face of risk and uncertainty. We place particular emphasis on studying the important role of financial intermediaries, competition and regulation in shaping the changing structure and...
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for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in … there may be a role for the government in reducing risk exposition of agriculture in its current form, natural and economic … constraints suggest to pave the way for structural reforms that reduce the importance of agriculture in the rural economy. …
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We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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that would help usher growth in the agriculture and rural areas. However, the rural areas have continued to suffer from the …
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In the face of seasonal climate variability, the smallholder farmers, particularly those in rural communities, are among the most adversely affected. As a way to address this, together with concern on low productivity, the Philippine government has been implementing a range of risk management...
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Crop insurance is a risk management tool designed to even out agricultural risks and address the consequences of natural disasters to make losses more bearable, especially to the marginalized farmers. In the Philippines, the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) implements and manages the...
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-holder farmers and medium- and large-scale farmers in the agricultural sector of the Shikarpur District of Sindh, Pakistan. Methods …
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For several decades, the government has sought to develop the agriculture sector through programs like agrarian reform … with policy reforms and new strategies to fast-track the development of the food and agriculture sector to make economic …
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