Purpose – At the center of apple production province in China, how to increase apple per unit yield and to improve …

While significant progress in microcredit and microfinance has been made in low‐income countries, lending for small …

Purpose In order to improve the assessment of current lending policies for a microfinance institution (MFI) in …/value Until now, the consequences of repayment delinquencies in microfinance lending relationships have hardly been investigated …. This study enhances the understanding of lending policies in microfinance by focussing on relationship aspects and by …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the farm and rural credit system in China. To do this … a variety of credit issues in China. Findings – A number of key factors related to credit delivery and demand are found … affecting rural credit in China. Under “Character” the authors discuss the cultural characteristics of the Chinese farmer in …

Mexico and China. Design/methodology/approach – Using primary survey data from 730 farm households in the Shaanxi province of … China and from 372 farmers in northeastern Mexico, the authors investigate factors associated with risk rationed, price …. Findings – The authors find in China the incidence of risk rationing in farmers to be 6.5, 14 percent for quantity rationed and …

survey is confined only to the counties investigated. China is very diverse in its agricultural economies and many RCCs …

is understood about the lender-borrower relationship in rural China. This paper fills that gap. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper investigates relational attitudes between 120 loan officers at RCCs in China's costal Shandong province, paired …