AEF

Agricultural Development Banks Reform - Strategies

 

  •  AgBanks - close them or reform them

Agricultural development banks were established to extend credit and other financial services to customers considered noncreditworthy by the commercial banking sector. Although frequently unprofitable, they play an important role in the fight against rural poverty. This article asks if these banks should be closed or if they are worth revamping... [weiterlesen]

 

  • AgDB Reform a Participatory Planning Instrument

 For decades, financial repression has undermined the evolution of a diversified financial sector with cost-effective services available to all segments of the population. The rural and urban poor in the developing world have been the most affected... [weiterlesen]

 

  • Reaching hundreds of millions of the rural poor - the role of rural and agricultural banks

  Rural and agricultural banks, among them state-owned agricultural development banks (AgDBs) and cooperative banks, have a wide outreach in Asian countries. Their potential as retailers and wholesalers (through cooperatives, rural banks, NGOs) for providing sustainable savings deposit and credit services to the rural poor is enormous... [weiterlesen]

 

  • AgDB Reform - Case Studies

For a hundred years or more, until the middle of the 20th century, a small number agricultural banks existed outside of Europe. For three decades, roughly from the1950s to the 1970s, agricultural development banks (AgDBs) were considered a panacea... [weiterlesen]

 

  • Agrarbanken - Ignorieren, schließen oder reformieren

Die Anfänge der öffentlichen Agrarbanken in Entwicklungsländern reichen ins 19. Jahrhundert zurück. Die syrische und die jordanische Agrarbank beispielsweise gehen auf die ottomanische Bank of Myra in Damaskus aus dem Jahre 1888 zurück; die indonesische Bank Rakyat Indonesia nahm ihren Anfang 1895 in Purwokerto. Fast alle verbliebenen Agrarbanken haben eine krisenhafte Geschichte von Fusionen und Neugründungen hinter sich... [weiterlesen] 

 

  • Reforming AgDBs

The issue of agricultural development banking discussed in this paper has a history to it. For a hundred years or more, until the middle of the 20th century, a small number agricultural banks existed outside of Europe. During that period, 15.5% of the banks in the AgriBank-Stat inventory, were established... [weiterlesen]