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Microcredit and gender empowerment: policy implications for sustainable agricultural development in Eritrea

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  • Yonas T. Bahta
  • Dirk B. Strydom
  • Emmanuel Donkor

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Sustainable agricultural development requires capital investment. However, farmers in Africa are constrained by inadequate access to microcredit. Therefore, this article examines the extent to which gender influences access to microcredit. The empirical results showed that women are less likely to be able to access microcredit, compared to men. The study also found that separate sets of factors including assets endowment, socio-economic, institutional, and technological factors significantly affected women’s and men’s access to microcredit. The article suggests that to promote sustainable agricultural development, gender differential should be critically considered in designing microcredit schemes that target farmers in Africa.

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  • Yonas T. Bahta & Dirk B. Strydom & Emmanuel Donkor, 2017. "Microcredit and gender empowerment: policy implications for sustainable agricultural development in Eritrea," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1), pages 90-102, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:27:y:2017:i:1:p:90-102
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1259393
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    1. Djihad Tria & Mukaramah Harun & Mahmudul Alam, 2022. "Microcredit as a strategy for employment creation: A systematic review of literature," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 2060552-206, December.
    2. Kai Tang, 2022. "The Effect of Left-Behind Women on Fertilizer Use: Evidence from China’s Rural Households Engaging in Rural-Urban Migration," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Salimata Traore, 2023. "Gender inequality in microcredit access in rural Burkina Faso: an analysis based on the decomposition method," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 64(1), pages 135-152, January.

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