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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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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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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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Under the Aquino administration, premium subsidies on agricultural insurance have significantly increased, mostly due to the special programs being implemented by the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC). This paper attempts to describe the various fully subsidized agricultural insurance...
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Using a unique dataset of a commercial microfinance institution in Madagascar, this paper investigates how the provision of microfinance loans with (in)flexible repayment schedules affects loan delinquencies of agricultural borrowers. Flexible repayment schedules allow a redistribution of...
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[Purpose] In recent years, the application of credit scoring in urban microfinance institutions became popular, while rural microfinance institutions, which mainly lend to agricultural clients, are hesitating to adopt credit scoring. The present study aims to explore whether microfinance credit...
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. Pakistan is among one of those countries which are food insecure. Agriculture credit can increase the food production which … ensures the food security. The widely accepted definition of food security given by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO …
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This study analyzed the trends and pattern of institutional credit supply to agriculture during pre- and post …
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Collective action (CA) allows individuals to overcome market and state failures, something particularly relevant in rural areas and highly imperfect markets such as agricultural credit. To analyse the relation between CA in the form of Rural Producer Organizations (RPOs) and access to...
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