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Can Technical Assistance Sow the Seeds for Rural Finance?

dc.contributor.author Bruhn, Miriam
dc.contributor.author Reddy, Rekha
dc.contributor.author Ruiz Ortega, Claudia
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-13T15:54:10Z
dc.date.available 2018-07-13T15:54:10Z
dc.date.issued 2018-06
dc.description.abstract Government interventions to lower interest rates and expand credit to the rural sector are common in developing countries. Some of these policies, like interest rate subsidies, though well-intentioned, can be distortionary and achieve opposite results. Interventions that tackle constraints that prevent the market from allocating credit on its own may achieve better results. One such constraint often present in rural areas is lack of technical capacity. Rural financial institutions are often ill-equipped to screen, monitor and manage risk and to price products. This lack of capacity increases operational costs which are passed on to borrowers in the form of higher interest rates and less lending. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/439421530030039244/Can-technical-assistance-sow-the-seeds-for-rural-finance
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29968
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Finance & PSD Impact;No. 50
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject RURAL FINANCE
dc.subject TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
dc.subject RURAL CREDIT UNIONS
dc.subject MICROFINANCE
dc.title Can Technical Assistance Sow the Seeds for Rural Finance? en
dc.type Brief en
dc.type Fiche fr
dc.type Resumen es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.date.disclosure 2018-06-26
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Brief
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/439421530030039244/Can-technical-assistance-sow-the-seeds-for-rural-finance
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/29968
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b085ca9aaf_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 30204884
okr.identifier.report 127634
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.region.administrative Latin America & Caribbean
okr.region.country Mexico
okr.topic Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Microfinance
okr.topic Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Rural Finance
okr.unit DECRG: Finance & Priv Sec Devt (DECFP)
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