The paper is a follow-up to an article published in Technique Financière et Developpement in 2000 (see the appendix to the hardcopy version), which portrayed the first results of a new strategy in the field of development finance implemented in South-East Europe. This strategy consists in...

For several years, development agencies and their partners have been involved in programmes supporting non-bank-based forms of financing for the agricultural sector. This is because non-bank-based forms of financing appear to have the potential to ease financing constraints on the private...