China's rural economy has made enormous progress over the last twenty-five years. But rural finance and institutional reforms are still lagging behind, thus creating the risk of slowing down further rural development.  In October 2003, the OECD, together with the Chinese Government, invited...

1. Introduction -- 2. Financial institution and markets -- 3. Financial understanding of accounting concepts -- 4. Ratio analysis and the Dupont system -- 5. Capital budgeting -- 6. Valuing investment under risk and uncertainty -- 7. Debt choice -- 8. Summary.

This study aims to assess the economic impacts of the National Family Farming Strengthening Program (Pronaf) in the various Brazilian biomes. The impacts at the sectoral, regional, and macroeconomic levels, arising from increases in rural credit to farmers in Brazilian territory - family and...

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...

The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is evaluated. Lacking exclusion restrictions of the usual sort, the effect of credit program participation by gender of participant is identified by imposing a factor structure on the...