... household's non-price credit rationing status. The panel selection model specified to examine causal effects of credit constraint on adoption variables allows us to tackle self-selection into adoptions and potential endogeneity of credit constraint while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in both...

... points to the influence of credit constraints as playing a role in limiting coverage level selections. Eric Belasco can be contacted at: eric.belasco@montana.edu 07 09 2021 27 01 2022 29 01 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use...

...Martinson Ankrah Twumasi; Yuansheng Jiang; Monica Owusu Acheampong Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors influencing rural youth farmers’ credit constraints status and the effect of credit constraint on the intensity of participation of these farmers in Ghana. Design...

... agricultural activities by relaxing rural credit constraints and intense competition strengthens the contribution of RCCs to agricultural growth by improving managerial efficiency and developing diversified financial products to meet better rural credit demands. Originality/value To the authors’ knowledge...

...Samuel Sekyi; Benjamin Musah Abu; Paul Kwame Nkegbe Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine farmers’ access to credit, credit constraint, and productivity in the Northern Savannah ecological zone of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data from the Ghana Feed the Future...

...Fengxia Dong; Jing Lu; Allen M. Featherstone Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of credit constraints on agricultural productivity in China. Design/methodology/approach Using data from a rural financial survey, a switching regression model is used to account...

... that access to credit solves a liquidity problem. If a credit constraint exists it results in a suboptimal allocation of resources and a reduction in farm output and profitability. A two‐stage regression model approach is used to analyze farmer survey and loan application data. In the first stage, a probit...