The Impact of Farm Credit in Pakistan

The Impact of Farm Credit in Pakistan

Both formal, and informal loans matter in agriculture. But formal lenders provide much more in production lending, than do informal lenders, often at a higher cost than what they can recover. The Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP), for example, providing about 90 percent of formal loan...

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Main Authors: Khandker, Shahidur R., Faruqee, Rashidur R.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
Agricultural development
Rural credit
Farm capital
Creditworthiness
Credit-based livelihood programs
Risk management
Loan defaults
Subsidized credits
Covariate risks
Cost-effectiveness
Landless laborers
Subsistence farming
Collateral
access to credit
accounting
ADB
agricultural credit
agricultural output
agricultural production
agriculture
asymmetric information
benefit analysis
borrowing
commercial banks
consumption increases
costs of borrowing
credit cost
credit demand
credit institutions
credit market
credit markets
credit programs
credit rationing
credit risk
credit schemes
credit transactions
deposit accounts
deposits
diminishing returns
econometric evidence
econometric models
elasticity
entrepreneurship
expenditures
farm credit
financial institutions
fish
Food Policy Research
GDP
government intervention
gross value
income
inflation
interest income
interest rate
interest rates
labor productivity
loan defaults
moral hazard
net profit
net value
net worth
nominal interest rate
opportunity cost
producers
production costs
production increases
productivity
real rate of interest
repayment
return on equity
rural credit
savings
transaction costs
wealth
working capital
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18200

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