Agricultural microcredit and technical efficiency: The case of smallholder rice farmers in Northern Ghana

Agricultural microcredit and technical efficiency: The case of smallholder rice farmers in Northern Ghana

In the current study, we compared technical efficiency of smallholder rice farmers with and without credit in northern Ghana using data from a farm household survey. We fitted a stochastic frontier production function to input and output data to measure technical efficiency. We addressed self-select...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Tetteh Anang, Stefan Bäckman, Timo Sipiläinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kassel University Press 2016-09-01
Series:Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics
Subjects:
microcredit
propensity score matching
selection bias
smallholder farming
stochastic frontier analysis
technical efficiency
Online Access:http://jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2016061350415

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