The acceleration of economic digitalisation has been immense in recent years and coupled
with the rapid development of technology-augmented finance. However, less understood is …

Agricultural subsidies lead to changes in the use of chemical fertilizer by farmers. Using data
from a household survey conducted annually by the Rural Economy Research Center of the …

This study examines the impact of access to credit on agricultural productivity in Nigeria
using the Endogenous Switching Regression Model (ESRM)). The first stage of the ESRM …

As China is the world's largest producer, importer, and consumer of agricultural products, the
new agricultural subsidy policy has significant implications for the global agricultural market …

Rice farming is important for income generation in large parts of China and Asia. This paper
uses detailed household, crop-and plot-level data to investigate the levels and determinants …

Agricultural development is essential for economic growth, rural development, and poverty
alleviation in low-income developing countries. Increasing agricultural productivity is an …

Empirical analysis of rural credit market failure has been of key scientific and political
interest in recent years. The aim of this article is to give an overview of the various methods …

In the current study, we compared technical efficiency of smallholder rice farmers with and
without credit in northern Ghana using data from a farm household survey. We fitted a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how credit access affects the welfare of
households and sheds light on how household characteristics influence the decision to take …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of access to production credit on
the productivity of smallholder farmers. Design/methodology/approach Data for the study …