Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: Deus Ngaruko Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 304 ISBN: 9783659551451
Описание
Far too little is known about the impact of market coordination failures on agrocredit supply arrangements and how agrocredit suppliers are coping with high transaction costs. This book applies an New Institutional Economics (NIE) approach, principally the Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) theory to first, analyse demand side primary information on the typology of agrocredit borrowers and their demand for agrocredit in relation to their farming systems; and second to analyse the supply side by describing agrocredit transaction arrangements and analyse the impact of transaction costs on preference by agrocredit suppliers for the most efficient transaction cost minimizing transaction arrangements. This book concludes that neither the markets Credit Transaction Arrangements (CTAs) nor the state CTAs are efficient in minimising all sorts of transaction costs implying that a blend of the private-public partnership is essential in the efficient delivery of agrocredit to smallholder farmers....
