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Macro-Scaled Microcredit and Constraints on Household Business Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand

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  • Archawa Paweenawat
  • Narapong Srivisal

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This paper studies impacts of One-Million-Baht Village Fund program on entrepreneurial activities of households in northern Thailand. In addition to being one of the largest-scaled microfinance programs to date, the implementation of the Village Fund program provides us with an exogenous variation in the availability of microcredit per household that can be used to form an instrumental variable. We apply our unique dataset, containing the instrument and a precise measure of the extent to which household businesses are financially constrained, to estimate Probit models that are subject to the problem of endogenous borrowing decisions. We find evidence for the positive impacts of the Village Fund program on relieving financial constraints faced by household businesses, but the impacts on business startup rates are not significant. Our findings offer policy implications on improving effectiveness of microfinance programs in promoting household businesses.

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  • Archawa Paweenawat & Narapong Srivisal, 2021. "Macro-Scaled Microcredit and Constraints on Household Business Development: Evidence from Northern Thailand," PIER Discussion Papers 163, Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:pui:dpaper:163
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    Keywords

    Entrepreneurship; Financial Constraints; Microfinance; Village Funds;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
    • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance

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