Obstacles to accessing pro-poor microcredit programs in China: Evidence from Penggan Village, Guizhou

Obstacles to accessing pro-poor microcredit programs in China: Evidence from Penggan Village, Guizhou

Why do poor farmers not take up microcredit loans, even when the terms are designed to be pro-poor? Fieldwork in a village in China’s Guizhou province revealed a puzzle: although the county government had designed a loan program that was intended to be unusually pro-poor, only three of the 349 eligi...

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Main Authors: TAN, Deborah Shu Yi, TAN, Track Tze Tuan, LING, Shao Tong, DONALDSON, John A.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
Subjects:
microfinance
local government
rural China
poverty
Agribusiness
Asian Studies
Political Science
Social Welfare
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3121
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4378/viewcontent/obstacles___AV.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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