Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi

By A. Diagne, Manfred Zeller. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Urban Studies

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Resilient Adaptation to Climate Change in African Agriculture (2010, background): “While the rural poor are in need of credit, Diagne and Zeller (2001) suggest that rural financial institutions should focus primarily on high-potential agricultural areas in order to meet the demand in these areas and ensure repayments.”
Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries (2005, neutral): “(1983), Binswanger and Rosenzweig (1986), Hazell et al (1986), Bell (1988), Gersovitz (1988), Besley (1994), Stiglitz (1994), Townsend (1995), Morduch (1995), Meyer and Nagarajan(2000), Barry and Robison (2001), Banerjee (2003), Fafchamps (2003), Dercon (2004), Armendariz de Aghion and Morduch (2005”
Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi (2008, neutral): “This measure of access to credit, it has been argued [Diagne, 1998, Diagne and Zeller, 2001], is a truer, more exogenous, measure than actual loan uptake or dichotomous credit program participation.”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “Furthermore, without adequate access to loans or insurance, producers who face negative shocks, such as droughts, illness or a significant drop in the prices they receive, can lose some of the few assets they do have (Diagne and Zeller, 2001).”
Maize in Eastern and Southern Africa: 'seeds' of success in retrospect (2003, background): “In their 1995-1996 survey of 400 households in five districts of Malawi where microcredit schemes operated after the collapse of the smallholder credit program, Diagne and Zeller (2001) found that when households chose to borrow they realized lower net crop incomes than non-borrowersfor several rea”
Lending terms, financial literacy and formal credit accessibility (2014, methodology): “a manageable level consistent with Field (2009)’s recommendation, we performed a factor analysis.”
Impact of Access to Credit on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Smallholder Cassava Farmers in Nigeria (2015, background): “Despite the fact that many studies support the hypothesis that access to credit increases the productivity and profit of the farm households (Diagne and Zeller, 2001; Adesina and Djato, 1996; Hazarika and Alwang; 2003; Foltz, 2004),couples with the fact that at farm level, the production costs for…”
Access to Rural Credit Markets in Developing Countries, the Case of Vietnam: A Literature Review (2019, background): “However, Diagne and Zeller clarified that the borrowing and net crop incomes of poor households in Malawi have negative correlation [30].”
Rural Women's Access to Credit: Market Imperfections and Intrahousehold Dynamics (2009, background): “Exceptions are the study by Diagne and Zeller (2001) in which all adult household members were interviewed, and Baydas, Meyer, and Aguilera-Alfred (1994) in which both male and female microentrepreneurs were interviewed.”
The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of Hybrid Maize in Malawi: An Empirical Test of an Agricultural Household Model under Credit Market Failure (2006, result): “This is consistent with the finding by Diagne and Zeller (2001) that the credit limits granted by formal lenders in Malawi were relatively small in relation to the amount of credit demanded. Zeller and Diagne (2001) therefore recommend to gradually increase loan sizes to repeat borrowers.”
Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from rural Rwanda (2014, neutral): “In Malawi, access to microfinance did not have a significant effect on net crop income (Diagne and Zeller, 2001).”