Collateral-free lending with risk-contingent credit for agricultural development: Indemnifying loans against pulse crop price risk in India

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 561-574

  Shee, Apurba ^a   Turvey, Calum G ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural finance; Commodity price risk; Commodity linked loans; Credit rationing; Development finance; India; Interlinked credit; Pulse crops in India

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL FINANCE; AGRICULTURAL PRICE; COMMODITY PRICE; CREDIT PROVISION; LEGUME; MORTGAGE LENDING; PRICE DETERMINATION;

INDIA;

EID: 84864848990     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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