Lending sources | Number of households | Percent |
|---|
Bank loans | 223 | 55.75 |
Social relations | 222 | 55.50 |
Temple | 27 | 6.75 |
Others | 17 | 4.25 |
- Other lending sources include private lending, rural mutual funds, farmers' cooperative organization, and small loan companies. The data is from a survey of Tibetan people in four provinces in 2018. We asked, "Do you have loans from a bank or other sources?" It is worth noting that in this paper, the formal loans include the government's anti-poor loan and bank loans, while the informal loans include temple loans and loans from friends and relatives
