Financial inclusion of small rural producers / Francisco G. Villarreal, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Villarreal, Francisco G., editor.

United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, issuing body.

International Fund for Agricultural Development, sponsoring body.

Series:

Libros de la CEPAL ; 147.

ECLAC books ; 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Latin America.

Agriculture.

Rural industries.

Finance.

Rural industries--Government policy.

Small business.

Latin America.

Small business--Latin America--Finance.

Rural industries--Government policy--Latin America.

Rural industries--Latin America--Finance.

Rural industries--Finance.

Small business--Finance.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santiago : Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2017.

Summary:

"There is mounting empirical evidence that the responsible provision and use of formal financial services have a positive impact on household well-being and enterprise performance. At the individual level, financial inclusion benefits rural households and small producers by facilitating the safe accumulation of assets, enabling them to leverage those assets in order to invest in human and physical capital, and supporting better risk management. The positive effects at the aggregate level are associated with better allocation of scarce resources among different activities. Despite recent progress on different aspects of financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean, large gaps remain, especially in rural areas, which have been historically neglected by traditional providers of financial services. This book describes how these gaps have evolved recently in five countries - Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico - that are at different stages of designing and implementing comprehensive financial inclusion strategies. Then, on the basis of a comparative analysis of the institutional architecture available, it identifies the main barriers preventing small rural producers from accessing and making effective use of the various financial services on offer, with a view to making policy recommendations for overcoming these limitations."-- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Financial inclusion of small-scale rural producers : trends and challenges / Cameron Daneshvar, Stefanie Garry, Jesús López, Jesús Santamaría, Francisco G. Villarreal

Financial inclusion in Latin America / Pablo Cotler

Recent developments, current situation and prospects for financial inclusion among small-scale rural producers in Costa Rica / José Antonio Vásquez R., Melvin Bermúdez, Ronald Rojas, José Antonio Vásquez C.

Financial inclusion in El Salvador / Pedro Argumedo

The financial inclusion of small-scale rural producers in Honduras / Daniela Cruz, Jesús López, César Valenzuela

Overview and prospects for financial inclusion in the Dominican Republic / Rolando Reyes, Cameron Daneshvar

Architecture of rural financial inclusion in Mexico / Pilar Campos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789211219739

9211219736

OCLC:

1024315271