What is the impact of rural bank credit access on the technical efficiency of smallholder cassava farmers in Ghana? An endogenous switching regression analysis

This paper assesses the impact of access to credit from rural and community banks (RCBs) on the technical efficiency of smallholder cassava farmers in Ghana. The study employed the stochastic frontier, and endogenous switching regression models to estimate the technical efficiency, and the impact of...

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Main Authors: Arnold Missiame, Rose A. Nyikal, Patrick Irungu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-05-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021012056