Impact of seasonality-adjusted flexible microcredit on repayment and food consumption : experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh
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Keywords
Bangladesh; Microfinance; Rural credit; Consumption; Microcredit; Default; Seasonality; Consumption Smoothing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2014-04-18 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2014-04-18 (Development)
- NEP-EXP-2014-04-18 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2014-04-18 (Microfinance)
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