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Roundtable Papers

THEME 1: Understanding Demand for Financial Products and Services Among Rural Poor

 Access to Credit and Borrowing Behaviour of Rural Households in a Transition
by Cuong H. Nguyen

 Credit Constraints and Productivity in Peruvian Agriculture
by Catherine Guirkinger and Steve Boucher

 The Demand for Micro-credit As a Determinant for Microfinance Outreach-- Evidence from China
by Enjiang Cheng

 Field Experiments in Rural Finance: An Example from Tamil Nadu, India
by Michael Faye and Sendhil Mullainathan

 How to Respond to the Need for Financial Services in Rural Areas with a High HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rate: Case Studies from Mozambique
by Dominique Brouwers

 Financing Coffee Farmers in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities
by Anne Bastin and Nicola Matteucci


THEME 2: Institutions for Expanding Outreach of Financial Products and Services in Rural Areas

 Contrasting Methodologies Used to Expand the Outreach of Financial Services to the Rural Poor: Lessons from Mexico's PATMIR Experience
by Julia Paxton

 Towards Expanding the Frontier of Microfinance Services in Nepal
by Nara Hari Dhakal

 Microbanks: Ownership, Performance and Social Trade-offs - a Global Analysis
by Roy Mersland and R. Øystein Strøm

 Primary Agricultural Society Linkage: The Best Rural Remote Self-help Groups in India Can Do?
by Rewa Misra

 Making Risk Sharing Models Work with Farmers, Agribusinesses and Financial Institutions
by Lillian C. Diaz and Jennifer E. Hansel

 Value Chains and Financial Intermediation: Some Theory and a Case Study about Creditworthiness, Supermarkets and Small Producers in Central America
by Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Geoffrey Chalmers, Rodolfo Quiros and Jorge Rodriguez-Meza


THEME 3: Improvements in Operational Management of Rural Financial Institutions

 Managing Credit Risk in Rural Financial Institutions in Latin America
by Mark Wenner, Sergio Navajas, Carolina Trivelli and Alvaro Tarazona

 Risk Management in Microfinance: Emerging Challenges in the Indian Context
by N. Jeyaseelan

 Financial Linkages in Mali: Self-reliance and Liquidity Balancing versus Liquidity Supply and Donor Dependence
by Hans Dieter Seibel

 Introducing Rural Finance into an Urban Microfinance Institution: The Example of Banco Procredit, El Salvador
by Juan Buchenau and Richard L. Meyer

 Rural Financial Institutions and Agents in India: A Historical and Contemporary Comparative Analysis
by Howard Jones, Marylin Williams and Yashwant Thorat

 Rural Financial Services in Kenya: What is Working and Why?
by Betty Kibaara


THEME 4: Advances in Financial Products to Fit the Needs of Rural Clients

 Trajectoire des Systèmes de Production Agricoles et Diversification des Modes de Financement des Exploitations Familiales dans les Zones Cotonnières Ouest-Africaines: Le Cas du Sud Mali
by François Doligez & Marc Dufumier

 Reducing Borrower and Lender Risk Through Context Sensitive Product and Portfolio Design: The Case of 'Integrated' Agricultural Development in Tajikistan
by Linda Jones

 Precautionary Wealth of Rural Households: Is it Better to Hold it at the Barn or at the Bank?
by Franz Gómez-Soto and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega

 Promotion of Rural Savings through Microfinance: The Experience of Sinapi Aba Trust in Ghana
by Sam Afrane

 Underwriting Area-based Yield Insurance to Eliminate 'Risk Rationing' and Crowd-in Credit Supply and Demand
by Michael R. Carter, Francisco Galarza and Stephen Boucher

 Microfinance et Investissement Rural: L'Experiénce de Crédit-Bail du Réseau CECAM de Madagascar
by Betty Wampfler, Emmanuelle Bouquet and Eliane Ralison


THEME 5: Enabling Environment and Policies for Rural Finance Market Development

 The Impact of Regulatory Policies on Provision of financial Services to the Poor
by Maliha Hamid Hussein

 Marco Regulatorio para la Profundización del Sistema Financiero en Zonas Rurales
by Narda Sotomayor and Mariela Zaldívar

 Limitado financiamiento formal para la pequeña agricultura: ¿Sólo un problema de falta de oferta?
by Catherine Guirkinger and Carolina Trivelli

 Políticas que favorecen el desarrollo de servicios financieros integrales para el sector rural marginado de México: Lecciones del Proyecto Regional de Asistencia Técnica al Microfinanciamiento Rural (PATMIR)
by Gabriela Zapata Álvarez

 Hacia un Nuevo Sistema Financiero Rural en México: Acceso Universal a Servicios Financieros en el Campo
by Isabel Cruz Hernández

 Impact Assessment of the Microfinance Programme in Amhara Region of Ethiopia
by Getaneh Gobezie and Carter Garber


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