Search Results - subject:"credit program"

A proven model for achieving localized food security and farmers benefit protection

Khan, Reza Ahmed; Md. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Despite efforts from government and DPs it has not been possible to ensure a rational return to the farmers on their productive efforts and solving localized food insecurity. In the above light an intervention was designed and implemented in Bangladesh since 1978 and it sustained many changes in...

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Investigation of Factors Influencing the Technical Efficiency of Agricultural Producers Participating in Farm Credit Programs: The Case of Greece

Rezitis, Anthony N.; Tsiboukas, Kostas; Tsoukalas, Stauros - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35 (2003) 03

European Union (EU) farm credit program. Technical efficiency measures are obtained within the framework of a parametric … in the 1994 farm credit program does not show any significant effect on technical efficiency. The predicted levels of … technical efficiency indicate that the average technical efficiency of farms 3 years after participating in the 1994 farm credit …

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Expanding Banking Services to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Poor Households in the Philippines

Lamberte, Mario B. - 2001

This paper has reviewed existing policies and programs to encourage banks to expand their financial services to micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MicSMEs) and poor households. The overall policy environment for promoting microfinance in the Philippines has indeed considerably improved...

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Expanding Banking Services to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and Poor Households in the Philippines

Lamberte, Mario B. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2001

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Assessing the Economic Value of Credit Guarantees

Saldaña, Cesar G. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2000

This article analyzes how a credit guarantee confers private benefits to creditors and proposes reform policies and related assessment measures in order to make credit guarantee a socially beneficial intermediation instrument. Analysis indicates that the necessary and sufficient conditions for...

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Assessing the Economic Value of Credit Guarantees

Saldaña, Cesar G. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2000

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Policy-Based Lending Programs in the Philippines

Lamberte, Mario B. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1994

Despite deregulation of the financial markets such as liberalization of foreign bank entry and branching, the government continues to directly intervene in the credit markets through several special credit programs. In the effort to restructure the economy, the government has availed the...

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Study of Alternative Mechanisms for Rural Credit Delivery

Pantoja, Blanquita R.; Peñalba, Linda M.; Adelino, … - 1994

This study aims to identify possible alternative mechanisms of extending credit to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) and to assess the effectiveness, viability and sustainability of the alternative mechanisms for delivering credit assistance to ARBs. It employs two research methods, namely...

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Interlinked Marketing and Credit Arrangements: Some Recent Evidence from Rural Philippines

Teh, Robert Jr. - 1994

The formal credit market has rationed out small-scale farmers due to asymmetry of information. Hence, interlinking of markets is observed. In this arrangement, traders become lenders to farmers due to informational advantages acquired through the years of transactions with each other. This...

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Agricultural Machinery Industry

Trabajo, Frances Myra - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 1994

This study aims to evaluate the effects of the Trade Reform Program on the performance and competitiveness of the Philippine agricultural machinery industry. It also attempts to identify non-price factors that may impinge on the industry’s competitiveness and efficiency. Findings have revealed...

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