Empirical measurements of households' access to credit and credit constraints in developing countries

By A. Diagne, Manfred Zeller, Manohar Sharma. 2000

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The Determinants of Credit Access and Its Impacts on Micro and Small Enterprises: The Case of Garment Producers in Kenya (2006, methodology): “We include in the multivariate probit 8 See, however, Diagne, Zeller, and Sharma (2000) for an interesting attempt to measure credit constraints.”
Access to Rural Credit Markets in Developing Countries, the Case of Vietnam: A Literature Review (2019, methodology): “The semi-formal sector includes microfinance institution or NGOs, government-supported lending programs that aimed at particular sections of the population, and other non-government projects [19,32].”
Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “However, Diagne et al. (2000) argue that these outcome indicators confuse participation in credit programs with credit constraints.”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “In other words, compared with men, and without adequate insurance, women are more likely to consider borrowing against collateral as a risky transaction and might be less interested in taking out loans even when credit is available to them.”