Documento de trabajo
Use of Financial Instruments In Rural Thailand
Fecha
2011Registro en:
Serie Documentos de Trabajo No. 344, pp. 1 - 31, Julio, 2011
Autor
Puentes Encina, Esteban
Institución
Resumen
This paper presents a summary of Önancial access in rural Thailand. We Önd that household use an
important variety of Önancial instruments and at the same time, there is a lot of heterogeneity at the
province level. Additionally, a credit program implemented in 2002, increased the number of household
with access to formal borrowing and decrease the importance of informal borrowing. During the whole
period we observe a high correlation between wealth and Önancial access, interestingly, household that
borrow informality are poorer than the household that do not borrow at all and household that borrow
from commercial banks are the richest.