Causes and implications of credit rationing in rural Ethiopia : the importance of spatial variation, Vol. 1 of 1

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Causes and implications of credit rationing in rural Ethiopia : the importance of spatial variation

Author:	Ayalew Ali, Daniel; Deininger, Klaus;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6096
Country:	Ethiopia;	Date Stored:	2012/06/18
Document Date:	2012/06/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	Public Administration, Law, and Justice; Agriculture, fishing, and forestry; Finance
Rel. Proj ID:	1W-Land Policies For Growth And Poverty Reduction: Moving Towards -- -- P095390;	Region:	Africa
Report Number:	WPS6096	Sub Sectors:	General agriculture, fishing and forestry sector; General public administration sector; Housing finance
SubTopics:	Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress; Access to Finance; Economic Theory & Research; Debt Markets; Financial Intermediation	TF No/Name:	TF095610-Computerization; TF096734-Impact Evaluation of Land Tenure Regularization in Rwanda; TF097647-India Gendered impacts of NREGA; TF098730-BNPP-GENDER; TF092028-GENDER; TF091533-GENDER; TF091531-GENDER; TF092663-EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIO; TF098469-New Approaches to securing land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: This paper uses Ethiopian data to explore credit rationing in semi-formal credit markets and its effects on farmers' resource allocation and crop productivity. Credit rationing -- both voluntarily and involuntarily -- is found to be widespread in the sampled rural villages, largely because of risk-related factors. Political and social networks emerge as key determinants of access to credit among smallholder, peasant farmers. Significant regional variation emerges as well. In high-potential, surplus producing areas where credit is largely used for agricultural production, eliminating credit constraints is estimated to increase productivity by roughly 11 percentage points. By contrast, in low-productivity, drought prone areas where loans were rarely used to acquire inputs for crop production, the authors find no relationship between credit rationing and agricultural productivity. To be effective, efforts to improve agricultural productivity not only need to increase credit supply, but also explore the reasons for credit rationing and the availability of productive opportunities.


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