This paper develops and tests a proposed methodology that puts forward a new integrated method for evaluating the performance of development finance institutions. This methodology applies assessment criteria...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
Promoting efficient rural financial intermediation, by Jacob Yaron, McDonald Benjamin, and Stephanie Charitonenko. The role of long-term finance : theory and evidence, by Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Asli Demirguc-Kunt...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) has operated in the rural areas of Thailand for just over thirty years. Originally conceived as a vehicle to deliver low-cost credit to Thai...
This report is intended to serve as a sourcebook to aid decisionmakers as they create environments conducive to the development of rural financial markets. As a sourcebook, it explores both the traditional...
This paper is offered as a sourcebook for decision makers seeking to create such an environment. The paper first outlines the traditional approach to rural finance which relied heavily on supply-led, state...
This paper reviews the performance of six rural finance institutions (RFI's) in sub-Saharan Africa. These institutions were selected because they exhibit some modes of operation which have been relatively...
Reforming finance in transitional socialist economies. How do market failures justify interventions in rural credit markets? What makes rural finance institutions successful? Animal health services: finding...
Providing affordable credit to the rural population has long been a prime component of development strategy. Governments and donors have sponsored and supported supply-led rural finance institutions both...
For several decades, international donors focused on creating and strengthening development finance institutions (DFIs). Many of these institutions, however, have encountered problems such as loan defaults...
The establishment of formal agricultural credit systems in most developing countries in recent decades has been motivated by the belief that widespread shortages of short- and long-term finance have arrested...
Rural credit has become a prime component of Bank lending operations since its inception. Providing affordable credit to the rural sector was considered warranted on both growth and equity considerations...