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Agricultural Credit - Accomplishments and Challenges
Subbarao, Duvvuri - eSocialSciences - 2012
Agriculture’s share in GDP is less than 15 per cent but it still remains the direct domain of over half of the population whose economic prospects are linked to the performance of agriculture. There are many schemes taken by NABARD to improve the agricultural sector but there ahead which...
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Increasing productivity and improving livelihoods in aquatic agricultural systems: A review of interventions
Castine, S.A.; Sellamuttu, S.S.; Cohen, P.; Chandrabalan, D. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …
Aquatic agricultural systems (AAS) are food production systems in which the productivity of freshwater or coastal ecosystems contributes significantly to total household nutrition, food security, and income in developing countries. The Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research...
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Risk in agriculture as impediment to rural lending: the case of North-Western Kazakhstan
Petrick, Martin; Ditges, C. Markus - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2000
On the basis of portfolio selection theory, this paper finds that whole-farm risk must be regarded as a major reason for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in order (a) to demonstrate the comparatively high overall risk...
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MICROFINANCE, ENDETTEMENT ET SURENDETTEMENT. UNE ÉTUDE DE CAS EN INDE DU SUD
Guérin, Isabelle; Roesch, Marc; HÉLIÈS, Ophélie; … - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n° 197 (2009) 1, pp. 131-146
explores the effects of microfinance on pre-existing indebtedness and over-indebtedness. The analysis demonstrates the … complexity of causality chains and the diversity of microfinance effects and households trajectories. In a context where … to borrow, rigidity of repayments) as well as social reasons. For other clients, microfinance has a leverage effect : it …
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Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila
Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Microcredit seeks to promote business growth and improve well-being by expanding access to credit. We use a field experiment and follow-up survey to measure impacts of a credit expansion for microentrepreneurs in Manila. The effects are diffuse, heterogeneous, and surprising. Although there is...
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How flexible repayment schedules affect credit risk in agricultural microfinance
Weber, Ron; Mußhoff, Oliver; petrick, Martin - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2014
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 …
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International labour standards and micro-finance : a review
Menon, Hema - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1998
Reviews provisions in ILO standards that refer to finance, the financial sector as a whole, financial isntitutions, financial instruments and policies addressed to the financial sector.
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How flexible repayment schedules affect credit risk in agricultural microfinance
Weber, Ron; Mußhoff, Oliver; Petrick, Martin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981850
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Targeting the Agricultural Poor: The Case of PCIC`s Special Programs
Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; Gloria, Reneli Ann B. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2015
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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Policy Options for Rice and Corn Farmers in the Face of Seasonal Climate Variability
Domingo, Sonny N.; Gonzales, Kathrina G.; Mina, Christian D. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2010
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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