Limited access to reliable financial instruments makes it difficult for rural households to manage daily cash flows. Selling goods through cooperatives can improve savings, but cooperative income is not easily accessible when facing an emergency.
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Scale and sustainability: The impact of a women’s self-help group program on household economic well-being in India
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
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The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India
MGNREGA was introduced in India in 2005 with the aim to improve the livelihood of rural Indian households.
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The economic costs of a multisectoral nutrition programme implemented through a credit platform in Bangladesh
Bangladesh struggles with undernutrition in women and young children. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programmes can help address rural undernutrition. However, questions remain on the costs of multisectoral programmes.
Hybrid maize farming has boomed across upland Southeast Asia in the past three decades. Recent studies suggest that the boom has resulted in diverse outcomes across countries.
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Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania
Credit constraint is often considered as one of the key barriers to the adoption of modern agricultural
technologies and low agricultural productivity in low- and middle-income countries.
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Agricultural credit constraints in smallholder farming in developing countries: Evidence from Nigeria
The agricultural sector in developing countries like Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies.
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Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world? A review of recent evidence
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Understanding the adoption of modern cultivars in India: Adoption probability and use intensity
Using a survey of 1,500 farmers, we identify farmer-level constraints to adoption of modern cultivars in Rajasthan, India, and decompose the overall elasticity into the elasticities of adoption probability and use intensity.
Contract farming has gained in importance in many developing countries. Previous studies analysed effects of contracts on smallholder farmers’ welfare, yet mostly without considering that different types of contractual relationships exist.
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Improving the performance of index insurance using crop models and phenological monitoring
Extreme weather events cause considerable damage to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally.
Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of this approach is thin.
Determining farmers’ real demand for crop insurance is difficult, especially in developing countries, where there is a lack of formal financial sector integration and a high reliance on informal risk mitigation options.