From the 1950s to the early 1970s, Sri Lankan governments pursued controls on the financial sector and have further reduced controls since 1977. This article links those financial sector reforms (falling controls) and the financial sector performance of Sri Lanka by testing hypotheses estimating...

Der Bericht behandelt die Agrarkreditpolitik und Agrarkreditpraxis in der Europäischen Union. Ziel der Studie war es, die Träger, das Volumen und die besonderen Bedingungen sowie die unterschiedlichen Wettbewerbsvoraussetzungen für das Agrarkreditgeschäft in den elf europäischen...

Reviews the literature on the prevalence, causes and consequences of violence and stress in the financial services sector and outlines strategies for the prevention and management of the problem.

On the basis of portfolio selection theory, this paper finds that whole-farm risk must be regarded as a major reason for the low level of credit flow to agriculture in North-western Kazakhstan. A quadratic programming model was used in order (a) to demonstrate the comparatively high overall risk...