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The Impact of Micro-Credit on Employment: Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan
Kahn, Azhar; Rahman, Twyeafur; Wright, Robert E. - 2016
This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non-borrowers. Pipeline borrowers are included to...
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Debt, poverty and resource management in a rural smallholder economy
Barbier, Edward B.; López, Ramón - 1998
This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608455
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Farm- Value Assessment as a Means for Reducing Premature and Excessive Agricultural Disinvestment in Urban Fringes
Conklin, Howard E.; Lesher, William G. - 1978
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Agricultural credit policy as a panacea for sustainable food production in Nigeria: Evidence from Ogun State
Oseni, Isiaq Olasunkanmi; Babalola, Akinola Daniel; … - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 69 (2019) 1/2, pp. 18-29
Farmers in Nigeria are credit constrained. Thus, access to credit is a sina qua non for achieving the sustainable development goal of sustainable food production and improving the welfare of the farming folks. This study assessed credit utilization among cassava farmers in Ogun state and its...
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Credit for what? Informal credit as a coping strategy of market women in northern Ghana
Schindler, Kati - 2006
This paper analyzes the use of informal credit as a coping strategy against risk by market women in the city of Tamale, Ghana. Using qualitative research techniques, the analysis reveals that intra-household structure and allocation decisions determine these market-based coping strategies....
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A macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change
Sobhan, Rehman - 2005
This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor … tiers of the value addition chain. The need for a macro-policy designed to eliminate poverty is premised on the argument … that poverty originates in the structural features of society which can only be addressed at the macro-level. Policy …
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A machine learning approach for micro-credit scoring
Ampountolas, Apostolos; Nde, Titus Nyarko; Date, Paresh; … - In: Risks 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-20
In micro-lending markets, lack of recorded credit history is a significant impediment to assessing individual borrowers' creditworthiness and therefore deciding fair interest rates. This research compares various machine learning algorithms on real micro-lending data to test their efficacy at...
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Analysis of the coexistence of conventional and unconventional credit markets in the agribusiness sector in Kenya
Ngare, Philip - 2019
The study aims to examine reasons for agribusiness proprietors seeking unconventional loans, where conventional lenders offer loans at lower interest rates. Using cross-sectional data analysis, the study revealed the type of clients served by unconventional lending sector: Households that are...
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Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance?
Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes - 2004
and how insurance could potentially prevent poor households from fallinginto poverty trap. In this setting, we argue that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807528
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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas
Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households? incomes in the eastern Himalayan region of India. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. We present and explore an analytical...
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