Microcredit and the household food security of the fish farmers: evidence from rural Bangladesh

The credit-constrained poor fish farmers in Bangladesh usually have limited access to formal credit institutions. As a result, NGOs took the effort to provide collateral-free microcredit support for the fish farmers to tide over their credit-related problems. This study empirically assesses the impa...

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Published inDevelopment in practice Vol. 32; no. 8; pp. 1091 - 1100
Main Authors Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir, Parvez, Asif, Ahmed, Shadman Sahir, Rafiq, Farhana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 17.11.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Access
Access to credit
Bangladesh
Credit
expenditure
Expenditures
Farmers
Fish
food
Food security
Households
Microcredit
Microfinance
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Rural poverty
security
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Summary:The credit-constrained poor fish farmers in Bangladesh usually have limited access to formal credit institutions. As a result, NGOs took the effort to provide collateral-free microcredit support for the fish farmers to tide over their credit-related problems. This study empirically assesses the impact of microcredit on the household food expenditure of fish farmers. The empirical results challenge the existing literature that access to credit increases the food expenditure of poor fish farmers. However, household assets played a pivotal role in increasing the food expenditure capacity of the fish farmers.
ISSN:0961-4524
1364-9213
DOI:10.1080/09614524.2022.2101618