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| |  Se sabe de sobra que la mayor parte de la gente pobre vive en las áreas rurales, entonces, todas las estrategias para reducir la pobreza tienen que girar alrededor de estas áreas. Los servicios financieros son una parte fundamental para la reducción de la pobreza, y permiten que la gente administre su consumo, los eventos cíclicos de su vida, sus ahorros y sus necesidades de inversión. El sector informal identifica la mayoría de estas exigencias en las áreas rurales, así como, los proveedores formales encuentran prohibitivos los costos elevados de las operaciones en estas áreas. Esto reduce las opciones y limita la posibilidad de la gente de beneficiarse con los recursos y servicios que gozan los empresarios urbanos. Hay que implementar estrategias para reducir los costos operativos en lugares remotos, donde los clientes están más desperdigados y dependen ampliamente de la agricultura. En este tema, presentaremos estudios de caso y ejemplos de novedades en miras de la ampliación de la cobertura rural, al igual que materiales que enfocan este amplio aspecto del sistema de vida y desarrollo rural. | |
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|  Regrese | | | | Título | Microfinance Institutions Moving into Rural Finance for Agriculture | | Autor/ Revisor | Pearce, D.; Goodland, A.; Mulder, A.; Brar, A. | | Idioma(s) del contenido | inglés | |
| Tipo de documento | Technical Note | | Resumen / Descripción | The majority of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have, until now, tended to rarely extend their services to marginal rural areas dependent on agriculture, due to higher transaction costs, price and yield risks, seasonality and collateral limitations associated with the agricultural sector. This Agriculture Investment Note produced by the World Bank details how a few innovative MFIs, including Bolivia’s PRODEM and Caja los Andes, and El Salvador’s Calpiá, have been successful in expanding to provide financial services to poor rural households. Through the adoption of a financial systems approach, which has recognised that financing for agriculture requires not only an emphasis on credit, but also a wide range of financial services, including savings, short and long term finance, insurance, money transfers for remittances and leasing. Due to the diversity of activities, and sources of income and financing within rural households, successful MFIs have been required to: - implement flexible methodologies and products to serve the diverse, often seasonal needs of their clients, such as offering flexibility on the timing, amount disbursed and repayment schedules which match agricultural production cycles,
- apply prudent risk management techniques to ensure strong financial sustainability and stable portfolios,
- use new technologies to increase operational efficiency and lower transaction costs, while improving access to financial services for their rural clients.
The benefits of increased MFI activity in rural areas and in financing agriculture are also described. For instance, it can lead to increased competition, higher volumes of finance, and a wider range of financial services becoming available to farmers and their households. Moreover, the rapid growth of the agriculture portfolio of some MFIs suggests that there is significant unmet demand from rural households for agricultural finance. The Note also emphasises the urgent need for the public sector to play a role in creating a suitable enabling market and policy environment for rural finance to continue to grow. It concludes by setting out the principle lessons that have been learnt in supporting MFIs that move into agricultural finance and recommendations for practitioners involved. | | Palabras clave | MICROFINANCE INSTITUTION; AGRICULTURAL CREDIT; RURAL FINANCE | | País | Uganda; Tailandia; Perú; El Salvador; Bolivia | | Fecha de publicación | mayo 2004 | | Descargar | | |
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| Editor | World Bank Group | | Lugar de publicación | Washington, D.C., USA | | Número de páginas | 5 pp. | |
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| Título de la serie | Agriculture Investment Sourcebook | |
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