Microcredit and the household food security of the fish farmers: evidence from rural Bangladesh. Issue 8 (17th November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mahmud, Kazi Tanvir; Parvez, Asif; Ahmed, Shadman Sahir; Rafiq, Farhana
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 32:Issue 8(2022)
• Page Start: 1091
• Page End: 1100
• Publication Date: 2022-11-17
• Subjects: Microcredit -- food -- security -- expenditure -- Bangladesh; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2022.2101618
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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.