Repayment rate of loans from semi-formal financial institutions among small-scale farmers in Ethiopia: Two-limit Tobit analysis

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2221-2230

  Brehanu, Amare ^a   Fufa, Bekabil ^a  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Loan repayment rate; Semi formal financial institutions; Two limit Tobit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349102057     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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