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...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 53; no. 12; pp. 2050 - 2067
Main Authors:	Isoto, Rosemary E., Sam, Abdoul G., Kraybill, David S.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd December 2017
Subjects:	Social finance Agricultural productivity Microfinance Small business finance Agriculture finance
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost