The Impact of Credit on Village Economies

This paper evaluates the short- and longer term impact of Thailand's "Million Baht Village Fund" program, among the largest scale government microfinance iniatives in the world, using pre- and post-program panel data and quasi-experimental cross-village variation in credit per househo...

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Main Authors: Townsend, Robert (Contributor), Kaboski, Joseph P. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2012-09-26T18:57:55Z.
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