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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Feast and Famine: Financial Services for Rural Kenya
Autores: | Argwings-Kodhek,   Gem; Kwamboka,   Mary; Karin,   Francis.
Data: | 2009-11-20
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Food Security; Food Policy; Financial Services; Kenya; Micro-finance; Agricultural Finance; Q18.
Resumo: | The paper gives a brief description of the history and main institutional forms in the agricultural and rural financial services sector–commercial banks, the micro-finance industry, savings and credit cooperative societies, village banks, building societies and the Agricultural Finance Corporation. It ends by raising some of the issues that need to be addressed as we begin to deal with the institutional and regulatory framework for the subsector including the cost of funds and the array of existing policy and legislative proposals on the table. The main argument of the paper is that we need to step back and undertake a comprehensive assessment of the sector before government passes new laws, or spends public money in unproductive ways. The paper proposes that the agriculture sector ministries should play a leading role in pushing for that comprehensive assessment.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/55160

Relação:

Michigan State University&gt;Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics&gt;Food Security Collaborative Working Papers

Egerton University, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development Working Paper

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