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...

Ample empirical evidence suggests that Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs), which are the core credit institutions in rural China, are not accountable to their member households. This article argues that this conundrum can be explained by an institutional analysis of the credit cooperatives using...

Many rural banks have sustained heavy losses because of poor credit activities. The main objective of the research was credit management of rural banks in Ghana. Specific objectives were to investigate how non- Supervision of borrowers influences the loan repayment, to establish how the...

Rural Banking in third world countries is new off-springs from the banking industries whose contributions cannot be over emphasized. This stems from the fact that they have helped in alleviating the poverty menace in third world countries such as Ghana. Most rural banks in spite of their...

In October 2003, the OECD, together with the Chinese Government, invited industry experts to take stock of the achievements China has made in agricultural finance and credit infrastructure, and discuss future challenges in this area. Chinese policy makers and experts, representatives from the...