The report assesses the performance of financial markets in rural areas of Romania, based on three - rural household, rural enterprise, and financial intermediary - surveys, carried out in 1998, and other official data covering 1997. The study finds that rural financial markets perform rather...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Currency Equivalents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary and Introduction -- Chapter I: The Rural Economy and its Economic Agents -- Chapter II: Rural Financial Intermediaries, Market Shares, Credit Products, and...