Institutional Finance for Agricultural Development: An Analytical Survey of Critical Issues

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst, 1993 - 162 páginas
Reviews the history and organizational structure of rural financial institutions and examines their profitability and their effect on development. Investigates the impact of interest rates on rural loan demand and on the supply of deposits and savings. Includes 13 case studies on the transaction costs and viability of rural financial institutions in five countries.
 

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Página 8 - Nevertheless, before sustained modern industrial growth gets underway, supply-leading may be able to induce real innovation-type investment. As the process of real growth occurs, the supply-leading impetus gradually becomes less important, and the demand-following financial response becomes dominant.
Página 137 - Agricultural credit: institutions and performance, with particular reference to the Near East.
Página 8 - Less emphasis has been given in academic discussions (if not in policy actions) to what may be termed the "supply-leading" phenomenon: the creation of financial institutions and the supply of their financial assets, liabilities, and related financial services in advance of demand for them, especially the demand of entrepreneurs in the modern, growth-inducing sectors.
Página 8 - ... benefits in the form of stimulating real economic development for this approach to be justified. In actual practice, there is likely to be an interaction of supply -leading and demand-following phenomena.
Página 140 - Determinants and Effects of the Expansion of the Financial System in Rural India.
Página 162 - The Role of Commercial Banks in Financing Farmers: Some Reflections on the Situation in Zambia," in Agricultural Administration, Vol.
Página 140 - Financial Intermediation and Rural Development: Role of Co-operative Credit in Agricultural Development," Indian Economic Journal, Vol.
Página 139 - Agricultural Credit Policy in Brazil: Objectives and Results," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol.
Página 84 - Robust standard errors are in parentheses. *** = significant at 1 percent, ** = significant at 5 percent. * = significant at 10 percent.
Página 8 - ... activity in the modern sectors. Financial intermediation which transfers resources from traditional sectors, whether by collecting wealth and saving from those sectors in exchange for its deposits and other financial liabilities, or by credit creation and forced saving is akin to the concept of innovative financing. The use of the "demand-leading" approach is a more moderate form of financial development.

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