Uninsured Health Shocks and Agricultural Productivity among Rural Households: The Mitigating Role of Micro-credit.
This article investigates how health shocks affect farm productivity in the presence of microcredit. It is expected that microcredit increases agricultural productivity by enhancing allocative and technical efficiency and by overcoming financial constraints that reduce purchase of inputs. However, m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 53; no. 12; pp. 2050 - 2067 |
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December 2017
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