... aversion tend to use fewer types of energy sources and are more inclined to use primitive fuels. Additionally, household income, credit participation, and access to information can all mitigate the inhibitory effect on energy transition caused by risk preferences. Originality/value To the best...

...Associate; Yanling Wang; Yan Yuan; Ping Gao Purpose Informal credit markets are very active in many developing countries, including China. Informal financial associations have become a major channel of borrowing. Using data from the 2006 Rural Household Survey, the purpose of this paper...

...Xueping Xiong; Jie Tian; Hongxin Ruan Purpose As a major agricultural province in central China, Hubei Province mainly carries out the peasant household credit investigation system through rural credit cooperatives (RCCs). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the peasant...

...Muhammad Khalid Bashir; Yasir Mehmood Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how institutional credit affected the productivity of rice crop in District Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select...

... a survey of over 1,500 households including general linear model and logistic regression results. The paper finds evidence of a “small farm bias” in the use of informal credit, but the paper cannot generalize this to credit rationing as a matter of course. In part, it is believed that a preference...

...Pei Guo; Xiangping Jia Purpose Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an institutional structure that often strays from intended policy goals. Unlike Robin Hood of English lore, the emergence of financial institutions in China...

...Calum G. Turvey; Rong Kong Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between business risks and credit choices of 400 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi province in October 2007 in the Yangling district. More specifically, this paper investigates whether or not rural...