Many laws and regulations in developing countries drive small businesspeople out of the formal banking sector and into the hands of high-cost and sometimes unscrupulous moneylenders in the informal sector. The author looks at these barriers to credit for small farmers and firms and suggests...

The paper analyzes the value chains of small-scale organic turmeric processing enterprises in Kandhamal district of Orissa state in India. The key sections of the paper provide the background of evolution of these enterprises, their business operations, various chain participants and their...

This paper examined how microfinance institutions have influenced small scale farming of wheat in the adoption of technology. Statistics show that wheat production has declined due to poor technological input as well as environmental factors. This study used descriptive survey design. The target...