Economic activity in developing countries is labor-intensive, low-scale, and family run, with substantial family managerial time spent supervising hired labor. We use a randomized control trial that subsidizes access to rental equipment markets to study the impact of the adoption of mechanized...

It is argued that the availability and judicious utilisation of funds are prerequisites for the development process of a region. Since credit is assumed to provide command over resources and facilitates to meet the needed liquidity, expansion of institutional provision of funds has been a...