Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

By J. Conning, Christopher R. Udry. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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A little at a time: the use of regularly scheduled repayments in microfinance programs (2003, background): “The details of the sampling strategy are provided in Zeller et al. (1999). 13 The two most convincing studies in this regard are Zeller et al.”
Modern Rice Technologies and Productivity in the Philippines: Disentangling Technology from Managerial Gaps (2015, background): “There is considerable survey-based evidence showing that farmers in developing economies would be willing to borrow more if additional credit was made available at a given interest rate, which suggests that credit rationing is indeed an issue (Conning and Udry, 2007).”
Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi (2007, unknown): “The experiment was carried out as a collaborative effort among several partners: the National Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM), Opportunity International Bank of Malawi (OIBM), the Malawi Rural Finance Corporation (MRFC), the Insurance Association of Malawi (IAM), and the Commodity”
The contribution of livestock to the Ethiopian economy – part II (2011, background): “As a result, the interest rates changed by rural lenders can vary widely within a community, ranging from zero for loans between kin and 18 friends to well over 100% per annum on loans from professional moneylenders (Banerjee 2003, cited in Conning and Udry 2005).”
Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions (2008, unknown): “involvement rate based on gifts, calculated from that country’s LSMS for 1998 was 37 percent, but the comparable figure adding in inter-household loans was 52 percent Cox (2004). Further, it is not clear whether what a household calls a “loan” does not contain at least some element of a gift if, for”