Credit constraints and productivity in Peruvian agriculture

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-308

  Guirkinger, Catherine ^a   Boucher, Stephen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural production; Credit constraints; Credit rationing; Peru; Risk rationing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CREDIT PROVISION; DATA SET; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL FINANCE;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 54849410459     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2008.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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