Recent evidence shows that many Sub-Saharan African farmers use modern inputs, but there is limited information on how these inputs are financed. We use recent nationally representative data from four countries to explore input financing and the role of credit therein. A number of our results contradict‘‘conventional wisdom” found in the literature. Our results consistently show that traditional credituse, formal or informal, is extremely low (across...
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2017/01/01
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Journal Article
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2018/02/09
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Agricultural input credit in Sub-Saharan Africa : telling myth from facts
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farmer
Citation
Adjognon,Guigonan Serge; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O.; Reardon,Thomas.
Agricultural input credit in Sub-Saharan Africa : telling myth from facts (English). Author accepted manuscript Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/160921518170755536