Download or read book Banking and Agricultural Growth written by Upendra Kunwar and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report assesses the World Bank Group?s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty, particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008, the period covered by this evaluation, the World Bank Group (WBG) provided $23.7 billion in financing for agriculture and agribusiness in 108 countries (roughly 8 percent of total WBG financing), spanning areas from irrigation and marketing to research and extension. However, this was a time of declining focus on agricultural growth and productivity by both countries and donors. The cost of inadequate attention to agriculture, especially in agriculture-based economies, came into focus with the food crisis of 2007-08. The crisis added momentum to an emerging renewal of attention and stepped-up financing to agriculture and agribusiness at the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC), as well as at several multilateral and bilateral agencies. World Bank financing rose two and a half times from 2008 to 2009, though that increase in lending seems to have been accompanied by a decline in analytical work, which this review finds valuable for results. This evaluation seeks to provide lessons from successes and failures to help improve the development impact of the renewed attention to the sector. Ratings against the World Bank?s stated objectives and IFC?s market-based benchmarks for agriculture and agribusiness projects have been equal to or above portfolio averages in East Asia, Latin America, and the transition economies in Europe, with notable successes over a long period in China and India. But performance of WBG interventions has been well below average in Sub-Saharan Africa, where IFC has had little engagement in agribusiness. Inconsistent client commitment and weak capacity have limited the effectiveness of WBG support in agriculture-based economies, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, and constraints on staffing and internal coordination within the WBG have also hurt outcomes. Financial sustainability has been constrained by insufficient government funding and the difficulty of maintaining agricultural services and infrastructure. The WBG has a unique opportunity to match the increases in the financing for agriculture with sharper focus on improving agricultural growth and productivity in agriculture-based economies, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greater effort will be needed to connect sectoral interventions and achieve synergies from public and private sector interventions; to build capacity and knowledge exchange; to take stock of experience in rain-fed agriculture; to ensure attention to financial sustainability and to cross-cutting issues of gender, environmental and social impacts, and climate; and to better integrate WBG support at the global and regional levels with that at the country level.
Download or read book Financial Policies And Management Of Agricultural Development Banks written by Carlos Pomareda and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research was made possible with the encouragement,support and assistance of several people. Iam thankful to Art Stoecker, Hong Lee, Su j it Roy,Robert Rouse, and David Upton for their valuable commentsand suggestions, while I worked on my dissertationat Texas Tech University. I am grateful to JoseEmilio G. Araujo and Jose Alberto Torres for grantingme leave from the Interamerican Institute forCooperation on Agriculture (IICA), to complete mystudies at Texas Tech; to Mike Gudger for his encouragementthroughout my work; to Peter Hazell, GustavoArcia and Juan Antonio Aguirre for their comments; toRocio Ramirez, Victor Quiroga and Franklin Ureoa fortheir assistance in processing the data; and to MayraSequeira and Marta Sandino for typing the variousdrafts. Access to the data was guaranteed by theintervention of Virginia Velasquez froro the AgriculturalInsurance Institute and the support ofGeneroso Perez from the Agricultural Development Bankof Panama.
Download or read book The World Bank and Agricultural Development written by Montague Yudelman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report, World Bank's credit practices for agricultural development - agricultural investments, support to farm production increase, the rural development era, economic implications, evaluation. Statistical tables.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Specialist Development Banking written by Anthony Birchwood and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study examines the evolution and performance of development banking in Trinidad and Tobago, focussing in particular on the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB). It gives a brief sketch of the stylised facts, the broad financial system, the operational structure, the relevance of ADB, the scale of operations, the market penetration and the rebound of ADB. The study then goes on to explore the strategic focus of ADB in a bid to gain lessons on the way forward. Publishing Agency: United Nations (UN).
Download or read book Institutional Finance for Agricultural Development written by Bhupat Maganlal Desai and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural and rural credit in the developing countries.
Download or read book Reforming Agriculture written by Jacob Meerman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Evaluates the World Bank's experience with the fifty agricultural adjustment operations (agsecals) approved ... since 1979 and reflects the impact on Bank programming of a worldwide shift in the development paradigm--P. [i].
Download or read book International Banking and Rural Development written by Pade Badru and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews two of the World Bank's agricultural development projects in southeast Nigeria, and concludes that the objectives of these projects - which include reducing rural poverty and developing indigenous capacity for rural development - have not been fully realized. This book concludes that what these projects have achieved in the past, was the increasing integration of the peasant's political economy into the world's capitalist market with negative consequences. For example, the projects emphasis on export crop production, as opposed to food production, simply led to a diminishing capability among peasant farmers especially in the project areas, to produce food for themselves - while at the same time, reporting increased productivity in export-related production. The end result is widespread poverty amongst the poorest strata of peasant farmers participating in the program. In addition, the book looks at the Bank's structural adjustment programme, which in fact has the potential to reduce whatever benefits its agricultural programs might bring about for peasant producers.
Download or read book Cooperative Agricultural and Rural Development Banks written by Jaya S. Anand and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over Nearly Four Decades Of Their Chequered History, Co-Operative Agriculture And Rural Development (Card) Banks Have Been Able To Emerge As An Outstanding Co-Operative Institution, Catering Exclusively To The Investment Credit Needs Of The Rural Areas. The Kerala Card Bank Is Considered To Be The Best Among The Developing Banks Based On Its Outstanding Performance In Terms Of Many Indicators Like The Quantum Of Advances Made, Reserves, Profit, Small Farmer Coverage Etc. It Has Diversified Its Activities So As To Cover And Assist Rural Artisans, Small Scale Industrialists And Has Also Launched The Financing Of Rural Housing.The Study Examines The Role Of The Bank In Meeting The Long Term Credit Requirements Of The Rural Masses In The State. It Has Also Examined The Impact Of Lending, And The Utilisation And Recovery Pattern Of Loan Advanced.The Study Makes A Brilliant Exposition Of All These Issues And Highlights The Real Problem Prevailing At The Beneficiary Level. The Author Has Used Various Statistical Tools To Make The Study Scientific And Accurate. This Book Should Be Of Vital Importance To Policy Makers And Researchers.
Download or read book Harvesting Prosperity written by Keith Fuglie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice for governments and development partners on reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The analysis describes global trends and long-term sources of total factor productivity growth, along with broad trends in partial factor productivity for land and labor, revisiting the question of scale economies in farming. Technology is central to growth in agricultural productivity, yet across many parts of the developing world, readily available technology is never taken up. We investigate demand-side constraints of the technology equation to analyze factors that might influence producers, particularly poor producers, to adopt modern technology. Agriculture and food systems are rapidly transforming, characterized by shifting food preferences, the rise and growing sophistication of value chains, the increasing globalization of agriculture, and the expanding role of the public and private sectors in bringing about efficient and more rapid productivity growth. In light of this transformation, the analysis focuses on the supply side of the technology equation, exploring how the enabling environment and regulations related to trade and intellectual property rights stimulate Research and Development to raise productivity. The book also discusses emerging developments in modern value chains that contribute to rising productivity. This book is the fourth volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.
Download or read book Enhancing Agricultural Innovation written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovation system can be defined as a network of organizations, enterprises, and individuals demanding and supplying knowledge and bringing it into a social and economic use. This book's primary aim, therefore, is to focus on the largely unexplored operational aspects of the innvoation systems concept and to explore its potential for agriculture. 'Enhancing Agricultural Innovation' evaluates real-world innovation systems and assesses the usefulness of the concept in guiding investments to support knowledge-intensive, sustainable agricultural development. A typology of innovation systems is developed; strategies to guide investments for strengthening innovation capacity are drawn up; and concrete interventions options defined. In its conclusions, the book emphasizes the importance of mechanisms for collaboration and interaction. Intermediary organizations, innovation councils, farmer organizations, and other means to strengthen collaboration are central to creating the exchange of knowledge and perspectives that will convert knowledge into valuable new social and economic products and services.
Download or read book New Directions in China s Agricultural Lending written by Fred Gale and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has substantially boosted lending to farmers & agribus. in recent years. The balance of loans to farmers doubled between 2001 & 2005. Loans for agribus. & rural infrastructure rose as well. Rural credit coop. & banks that lend to ag. are being reformed & commercialized but ag. lending is still largely policy-driven. The boost in farm lending is one of several policy initiatives to aid farmers. Chinese ag. remains dominated by extremely small farms using little physical capital, but rising investment is helping the sector diversify & is improving the quality & safety of ag. produce. The campaign to inject capital into rural China is enabled by an abundant supply of domestic savings & large inflows of foreign investment. Illustrations.
Download or read book Banking and Rural Development written by H. B. Shivamaggi and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study in Indian context.
Download or read book Agriculture and Development written by Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.
Download or read book Asian Development Bank and Rural Development written by Robert Wihtol and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-06-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the policy change the Asian Development Bank's rural sector projects have continued to focus on increasing production, with little impact on unemployment or poverty. This study examines the reasons - both political and organizational - for the gap between policy practice.
Download or read book Commercial Banks and Agricultural Development written by S.N. Misra and published by . This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance of commercial banks in financing agriculture during the post-nationalisation period exhibited signs of large scale improvement in agriculture in the plain areas but this was no so in the hilly and drought-prone areas of the country. The present book is an attempt to study indepthly the role of commercial banks in promoting agricultural development in hilly and drought-prone areas. Accordingly the book makes an attempt to answer the following questions emerging out of the study: (a) Whether the present cropping pattern is adequate and what changes in the cropping pattern can be effected for the development of agriculture in such hitherto neglected area?, (b) Is the demand for credit by farmers, as distinguished from non-borrowers met by commercial banks?, (c) Have the farmers utilized the credit for the purposes for which they had been issued loans, (d) Did the farmers repay the loans taken from banks fully and timely, (e) What are the bottlenecks that affected the role of banks and the performance by the farmers handling agricultural credit; (f) What special measures are needed to improve the involvement of banks in the hitherto neglected hilly and drought-prone areas. The work is original and makes a pioneering effort to solve some of the vexed problems which had lingered in the minds of the scholars for a long line. The book is very useful to bankers, policy makers, statesmen, teachers of universities and researchers. In view of this, the study may be considered as a valuable addition to the existing stock of literature on the subject.
Download or read book Agricultural Development Bank written by Nepāla Krshi Vikāsa Bainka and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
