The Impact of Credit on Village Economies

This paper evaluates the short- and longer term impact of Thailand's "Million Baht Village Fund" program, among the largest scale government microfinance iniatives in the world, using pre- and post-program panel data and quasi-experimental cross-village variation in credit per househo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Townsend, Robert, Kaboski, Joseph P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73197
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102