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Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS-ISA and World Bank enterprise surveys

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Title Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS-ISA and World Bank enterprise surveys
 
Creator Ambler, Kate
Brauw, Alan de
Herskowitz, Sylvan
Pulido, Cristhian
 
Subject financial institutions
agro-industry
World Bank
surveys
value chains
demand
credit
enterprises
small and medium enterprises
finance
 
Description The midstream of agricultural value chains are rapidly changing in response to shifting domestic and international demand. While the performance of this segment may have important implications for the entire sector, evidence on midstream actors and their financial needs remain thin. We use data from both the Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture and the World Bank Enterprise Survey from seven African countries to identify these agricultural midstream firms and assess their access to formal credit, comparing them to other, non-agricultural midstream firms. We find that the identified agricultural midstream firms are larger and more productive than their non-agricultural midstream counterparts and are less likely to report barriers to accessing credit, though overall access levels remain low. Among agricultural midstream firms, those owned or managed by women are more likely to report barriers to accessing credit. Taken together, these findings help build our understanding about the financial needs of micro-, small-, and medium-size enterprises in the agricultural midstream.
 
Date 2022-06-02
2023-01-22T18:18:59Z
2023-01-22T18:18:59Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; Herskowitz, Sylvan; and Pulido, Cristhian. 2022. Financial access of midstream agricultural firms in Africa: Evidence from the LSMS-ISA and World Bank enterprise surveys. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2125. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135932
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127801
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135932
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute