TY  - GEN
AU  - Vera-Cossio, Diego A.
TI  - Research Insights: Do Better-Connected Community Members Benefit More from Subsidized Credit?
PY  - 2021
Y1  - 2021/08/31
DO  - 10.18235/0003594
AB  - More powerful and less productive households, both in terms of wealth and connections, ended up obtaining more credit from a community-based lending program. Informal markets partially attenuated these targeting distortions by redirecting credit from connected to unconnected households, albeit at higher rates. Despite the targeting distortions, a community-based approach may still be more appealing than other centralized criteria to target credit. Eliminating the connection-based advantage may lead to village-level gains in terms of equity and output.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0003594
ER  -