Gautam Hazarika|Jeffrey Alwang
Access to credit, plot size and cost inefficiency among smallholder tobacco cultivators in Malawi
Virginia Tech
abstract using data malawi financial markets household food security survey paper examines effect access credit formal sources tobacco plot size cost inefficiency among malawian smallholder tobacco cultivators farmspecific cost inefficiency estimated within framework stochastic frontier analysis access credit measured sum household members selfreported credit limits credit organisations arguably truer measure exogenous credit constraint credit program participation actual loan uptake found tobacco cultivation significantly less cost inefficient per acre larger plots access credit statistically discernible effect cost inefficiency reduces gain cost efficiency larger plot size