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Liquidity constraints, access to credit and pro-poor growth in rural Tanzania

✍ Scribed by Alex Winter-Nelson; Anna A. Temu

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 162 KB
Volume: 17
Category: Article
ISSN: 0954-1748
DOI: 10.1002/jid.1175

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✦ Synopsis

Small-scale farmers in developing countries may become trapped in poverty by lack of the liquidity needed to make profitable investments. Increased access to credit could generate pro-poor economic growth if poor households are otherwise liquidity-constrained and if liquidity-constrained households benefit from the new financial services. Using household data from rural Tanzania, this paper presents evidence that increased finance for liquidity-constrained households could generate pro-poor agricultural growth, but that general expansion of financial services to households that have no access to credit would not effectively target lower income households or households whose farm activities are liquidity-constrained.

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