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The World Bank economic review 4(3), Volume 1

Author:	Hoff, Karla; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Udry, Christopher; Bell, Clive; Aleem, Irfan; Siamwalla, Ammar;	Country:	Pakistan; Nigeria; India; Thailand;
Date Stored:	2002/09/12	Document Date:	1990/09/30
Document Type:	Publication	ISBN:	ISBN 0-8213-1682-6
Language:	English	Major Sector:	(Historic)Multisector
Region:	East Asia and Pacific; South Asia; Africa	Report Number:	17595
Sub Sectors:	(Historic)Non-sector specific	Source Citation:	The World Bank economic review. -- Vol. 4, no. 3 (September 1990)
SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Economic Theory & Research; Banks & Banking Reform; Insurance & Risk Mitigation; Financial Intermediation	Volume No:	1

Summary: Introduction: imperfect information and rural credit markets - puzzles and policy perspectives. Credit markets in northern Nigeria: credit as insurance in a rural economy. The Thai rural credit system: public subsidies, private information, and segmented markets. Interactions between institutional and informal credit agencies in rural India. Imperfect information, screening, and the costs of informal lending: a study of a rural credit market in Pakistan. Peer monitoring and credit markets.


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