Access to credit, plot size and cost inefficiency among smallholder tobacco cultivators in Malawi

Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi

Determinants of Household Access to and Participation in Formal and Informal Credit Markets in Malawi

The paper uses the concept of credit limit to analyze the determinants of household access to and participation in informal and formal credit markets in Malawi. Households are found to be credit constrained, on average, both in the formal and informal sectors; they borrow, on average, less than half of any increase in their credit lines. Furthermore, they are not discouraged in their participat...

Does Access to Storage Protectant Increase Smallholder Adoption of Improved Maize Seed? Insights from Malawi

Cost Stickiness and Banks Credit Risk

The credit risk in banks is a function of the profitability and quality of bank assets. Moreover, cost stickiness also affects the quality of assets and profitability of banks. To achieve the research aims, is to explore relationship between cost stickiness and banks credit risk were tested and analyzed is based on pooling data from 21 banks in duration 2012-2019. The findings show that there i...

Unexploited Profit among Smallholder Farmers in Central Malawi: What are the Sources?

The purposes of this research were to measure the profit efficiency of sample Irish potato farms and subsequently to explore determinants of profit inefficiency in the Dedza district of Malawi. Flexible Stochastic Profit Frontier Analysis was used to measure profit efficiency. Farmers from 200 randomly selected farmers were interviewed for plot level data. Research results revealed that the ave...