Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi
Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit. Many development professionals believe that this lack of credit has negative consequences for poor people’s agricultural productivity, food security, health, and overall household welfare. Improved access to credit, they a...
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2001
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| author | Diagne, Aliou Zeller, Manfred |
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| description | Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit. Many development professionals believe that this lack of credit has negative consequences for poor people’s agricultural productivity, food security, health, and overall household welfare. Improved access to credit, they argue, will help poor rural households engage in more productive income-generating activities both on and off the farm and raise their living standards. Community and member-based microfinance programs have thus enjoyed considerable political and financial support during the 1990s. Yet in Access to Credit and Its Impact on Welfare in Malawi, Aliou Diagne and Manfred Zeller argue that access to microcredit may not be an effective way of alleviating poverty if the necessary infrastructure and socioeconomic environment are lacking. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1580342025-01-10T06:43:33Z Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi Diagne, Aliou Zeller, Manfred rural poor agricultural credit agricultural policies developing countries small enterprises finance Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit. Many development professionals believe that this lack of credit has negative consequences for poor people’s agricultural productivity, food security, health, and overall household welfare. Improved access to credit, they argue, will help poor rural households engage in more productive income-generating activities both on and off the farm and raise their living standards. Community and member-based microfinance programs have thus enjoyed considerable political and financial support during the 1990s. Yet in Access to Credit and Its Impact on Welfare in Malawi, Aliou Diagne and Manfred Zeller argue that access to microcredit may not be an effective way of alleviating poverty if the necessary infrastructure and socioeconomic environment are lacking. 2001 2024-10-24T12:53:18Z 2024-10-24T12:53:18Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158034 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Diagne, Aliou; Zeller, Manfred. 2001. Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi. Research Report 116. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158034 |
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| title | Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi |
| title_full | Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi |
| title_short | Access to credit and its impact on welfare in Malawi |
| title_sort | access to credit and its impact on welfare in malawi |
| topic | rural poor agricultural credit agricultural policies developing countries small enterprises finance |
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