Research on Rural Finance Development Level Evaluation

Finance and Development Research Programme

Micro - Level Research on Rural Marketing Systems

The focus of this paper is on micro-level marketing research to support the design and implementation of rural development programs. Contemporary rural development efforts are directed primarily at promoting change so as to simulta­ neously affect the distribution and growth of income, employment, nutrition, health, and other dimensions of the quality of life in rural areas. Although there is a...

Evaluation and Analysis of the Level of Infrastructure Development in Rural Areas of Ardabil Province

Introduction Regional development is one of those issues that have attracted lots of attentions by program-makers, especially the regional ones. A study on various levels of the major criterions including those of economic, social, cultural and health, particularly at regional level, is useful to determine the position of different regions, as it requires special considerations in regional l...

Transformation and Rural Finance

In the process of transformation from a centrally-planned to a market-orientated economy, the domestic financial sector plays two important roles. First, the financial sector itself has to be fundamentally restructured, and second, its efficient functioning is a crucial precondition for the necessary economic transformation. During the central-planning era, the financial sector typically carrie...

Rural Finance Strategy

Rural finance strategy / [by Mark Wenner]. p.cm. (Sustainable Development Department Sector strategy papers series ; RUR-104) Includes bibilographical references. Foreword This document builds on Bank efforts over the past year to define a strategy to carry out the mandates of the Eighth Replenishment related to the development of rural financial markets. The 1994 Agreement for the Eighth Reple...