Choice of savings instruments among rural women maize farmers: evidence from Uganda

Mawia, Harriet; Simtowe, Franklin; Rahut, Dil Bahadur

dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-27T08:21:17Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-27T08:21:17Z
dc.date.issued	2021-05-25
dc.identifier	doi:10.17170/kobra-202104133656
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/12856
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.rights	Namensnennung 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	banks	eng
dc.subject	home	eng
dc.subject	likelihood	eng
dc.subject	mobilisation	eng
dc.subject	multinomial logit	eng
dc.subject.ddc	300
dc.subject.ddc	630
dc.title	Choice of savings instruments among rural women maize farmers: evidence from Uganda	eng
dc.type	Aufsatz
dcterms.abstract	Households in developing countries employ a wide range of mechanisms for making cash and in-kind (goods and services) savings which are either formal or informal. Yet, literature on how choices about appropriate savings instruments are made remains scanty. We examine the patterns and choice of these saving instruments using household data from women farmers in eastern Uganda. In particular, the paper focuses on the choice between formal cash saving instruments like commercial banks, village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) and savings at home. A multinomial logit model was applied to identify and quantify the effects of socio-economic factors on farmers’ choice of different savings instruments. The results reveal that financial capital and socio-economic factors such as age, education, farm size, and level of maize commercialisation were the critical drivers of women maize farmers’ choices of saving in informal and formal instruments.	eng
dcterms.accessRights	open access
dcterms.creator	Mawia, Harriet
dcterms.creator	Simtowe, Franklin
dcterms.creator	Rahut, Dil Bahadur
dc.subject.swd	Uganda	ger
dc.subject.swd	Maisanbau	ger
dc.subject.swd	Landwirtin	ger
dc.subject.swd	Bank	ger
dc.subject.swd	Sparverhalten	ger
dc.subject.swd	Logit-Modell	ger
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
dcterms.source.identifier	eissn:2363-6033
dcterms.source.issue	No. 1
dcterms.source.journal	Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS)	eng
dcterms.source.pageinfo	103-114
dcterms.source.volume	Vol. 122
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