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Improving the Rural Investment Climate for Businesses : Key to Rural Income Generation. / Naotaka Sawada.
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- Author/Creator:
- Sawada, Naotaka.
- Series:
- Other papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access to Finance.
- Access to Information.
- Accounting.
- Agribusiness.
- Agribusiness & Markets.
- Agriculture.
- Bankruptcy.
- Capacity Building.
- Collateral.
- Commercial Banks.
- Corruption.
- Cost-Benefit analysis.
- Economic Development.
- Economies of Scale.
- Entrepreneurs.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial Literacy.
- Financial Management.
- Fiscal Policy.
- Gender.
- Household Income.
- Human Capital.
- Inequality.
- Information Technology.
- Insurance.
- Interest Rates.
- Investment Climate.
- Knowledge Gaps.
- Labor Market.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Marketing.
- Microfinance Institutions.
- Mobility.
- Productivity.
- Profitability.
- Property Rights.
- Public Service Delivery.
- Roads.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Non-Farm Income Generation.
- Rural Policies and Institutions.
- Rural Services and Infrastructure.
- Rural Transport.
- Savings.
- Technical Assistance.
- Transaction Costs.
- Transport.
- Transport Costs.
- Transport Economics Policy and Planning.
- Urban Areas.
- Vehicles.
- Wages.
- Local Subjects:
- Access to Finance.
- Access to Information.
- Accounting.
- Agribusiness.
- Agribusiness & Markets.
- Agriculture.
- Bankruptcy.
- Capacity Building.
- Collateral.
- Commercial Banks.
- Corruption.
- Cost-Benefit analysis.
- Economic Development.
- Economies of Scale.
- Entrepreneurs.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial Literacy.
- Financial Management.
- Fiscal Policy.
- Gender.
- Household Income.
- Human Capital.
- Inequality.
- Information Technology.
- Insurance.
- Interest Rates.
- Investment Climate.
- Knowledge Gaps.
- Labor Market.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Marketing.
- Microfinance Institutions.
- Mobility.
- Productivity.
- Profitability.
- Property Rights.
- Public Service Delivery.
- Roads.
- Rural Development.
- Rural Non-Farm Income Generation.
- Rural Policies and Institutions.
- Rural Services and Infrastructure.
- Rural Transport.
- Savings.
- Technical Assistance.
- Transaction Costs.
- Transport.
- Transport Costs.
- Transport Economics Policy and Planning.
- Urban Areas.
- Vehicles.
- Wages.
- Other Title:
- Improving the Rural Investment Climate for Businesses
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2012.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- An appropriate rural investment climate (RIC) is essential for rural businesses to be successful and generate employment and income in their communities. Improving the investment climate could facilitate income-generation activities in both farm and nonfarm sectors, thus reducing rural poverty. Nonfarm sector focused growth, combined with agricultural growth, and has been shown by Delgado and others (1998) to have a significant impact on the local economy through the generation of employment and income. This study is the first to focus on both farm and nonfarm enterprises in its 2010 surveys of RIC in Yemen, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Mozambique unlike six previous RIC assessment (RICA) pilot projects that focused only on nonfarm enterprises. This report assesses the weaknesses and strengths of all RIC components in farm and nonfarm enterprises of the four countries surveyed, and recommends measures to address the weaknesses. The report identifies similar business obstacles for farm and nonfarm enterprises and four critical areas of the RIC to be improved. The results of the RICA are based on analyses of obstacles perceived by rural entrepreneurs and on assessments by RIC indicators, enterprise entry and exit, and enterprise performance. To have maximum synergy effects, farm and nonfarm enterprises should be promoted together.
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