Obstacles to accessing pro-poor microcredit programs in China: Evidence from Penggan Village, Guizhou

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: TAN, Deborah Shu Yi, TAN, Track Tze Tuan, LING, Shao Tong, DONALDSON, John A.
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• الموضوعات: microfinance; local government; rural China; poverty; Agribusiness; Asian Studies; Political Science; Social Welfare
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3121; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4378/viewcontent/obstacles___AV.pdf

Why do poor farmers not take up microcredit loans, even when the terms are designed to be pro-poor? Fieldwork in a village in China’s Guizhou province revealed a puzzle: although the county government had designed a loan program that was intended to be unusually pro-poor, only three of the 349 eligi...