Direct Effects of Formal Savings Adoption on Agricultural Investments Among the Poor: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
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Keywords
Agricultural Finance; Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Production Economics;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-08-01 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2015-08-01 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2015-08-01 (Microfinance)
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