Do agricultural producers forgo otherwise profitable investments due to civil conflict?Answering this question is crucial our understanding of the costs violence, but requires ability measure farmers’ willingness invest and access exogenous variation in conflict intensity. We exploit a unique administrative dataset from Colombia’s largest bank 2016 demobilization agreement between Colombian gove...

There are many things that indicate agriculture has changed rapidly in the last ten years. Change occws SO fast that agriculture could overnight become something different from what it is today (Downey, 1986). Of the many changes agriculture experienced in the 1980s, some changes have been detrimental while others have been quite positive. One positive change is the greater opportunity for adul...

In this paper, we have developed a credit scoring model for agricultural loan portfolio of a large Public Sector Bank in India and suggest how such model would help the Bank to mitigate risk in Agricultural lending. The logistic model developed in this study reflects major risk characteristics of Indian agricultural sector, loans and borrowers and designed to be consistent with Basel II, includ...

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or opportunities to purchase ...