refers to constraining impacts on farm credit through policy action or inaction. To present the ideas the author discusses …/methodology/approach – The paper is developed as a narrative on agricultural credit policies based largely on existing literature. Findings … – This paper argues that the various critiques of rural credit policy in favor of free market principles have generally not …

MGNREGA, increases access to financial services and in particular, credit. Results provide evidence that, MGNREGA has been … participants, due to work in MGNREGA acts as a link between longer participation and increased access to formal credit …