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Munirul Haque Nabin and Gautam Bose |
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''Micro-credit Programs and Land Distribution: A Note'' |
( 2006, Vol. 15 No.9 ) |
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"Micro-credit" has come to refer to a popular extension strategy -usually in the agricultural sector -whereby a government or NGO extends credit at favorable rates to poorer borrowers, with repayment being supported by some kind of mortgage on the borrower's social capital. In the commonest case, eligibility is determined by the borrower''s wealth, as indexed by his/her landholding. This note shows that, with an imperfect land market, the response to such a program will be to fragment landholdings which are smaller than a certain threshold, while larger holdings remain unaffected. Thus the pattern of landholding will tend to become more polarized. |
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Keywords: land fragmentation and polarization |
JEL: O1 - Economic Development: General O1 - Economic Development: General |
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Manuscript Received : Sep 05 2006 | | Manuscript Accepted : Sep 08 2006 |
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