Rural finance resources

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Case studies and reports

The Microfinance Gateway
Penetrating the rural finance market: the experience of ACCION

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Rural finance and micro-finance development in transition countries in South-East and East Asia

Global Development Network (GDN)

Graduating the poorest into microfinance: linking safety nets and financial services

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Rural finance and poverty alleviation

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Agricultural marketing companies as sources of smallholder credit in Eastern and Southern Africa
• Rural finance case studies
• Emerging lessons in agricultural microfinance

Good practices

Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Agricultural finance revisited

International Fund for Agricultural Development

• Assessing and managing social performance in microfinance
• Managing risks and designing products for agricultural microfinance Features of an emerging model
• Village banks: the new generation. How IFAD helped FINCA set its village banking programmes on the road to commercialization
• Supporting innovation in the field. The role of IFAD’s support in the sustainability and commercial transformation of FINCA’s village banking programmes

Lessons learned

German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
Rural economic development

Publications

Economic Research Service: United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural and rural finance

ID21 insights
Communicating development research
Realising the potential of microfinance

Inter-American Development Bank
Rural finance

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Microfinance: macro benefits
• Rural finance for the poor: from unsustainable projects to sustainable institutions
• Publications

World Bank

• Microfinance and the poor in Central Asia: challenges and opportunities (2004)
• Leasing - an underutilized tool in rural finance (2004)

Toolkits, guidelines and manuals

Rural finance knowledge management network

Rural finance learning centre

 

International Fund for Agricultural Development

• Decision tools
• Handbook for the analysis of the governance of microfinance institutions

World Bank
Rural finance library

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