This paper evaluates the welfare impacts of microcredit programmes and the activities of non-governmental organization … microfinance service providers in state-designated poor counties of Shaanxi, China. Study results suggest positive impacts on … microcredit programme participants with respect to increased income (by 4.07 per cent), general expenditures (6.45 per cent) and …

This study examines the impacts of a large-scale government-led microcredit program on informal risk sharing among poor … households in rural China based on a randomized controlled trial. The results show that financial inclusion, on average, reduced … microcredit raises the expected value of autarky utility relative to the utility derived from risk-pooling arrangements, and thus …

can be an important threat to livelihoods. Yet for a variety of reasons, there are few applicable methods and consequently … an alternative approach for estimating the impacts of livestock diseases on livelihoods. This proposed approach is an …

occurring water bodies through aquaculture. The project has been implemented in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Mali and Vietnam …