Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them?
In most developing countries, it is the private, informal markets that the rural poor have traditionally turned to service their financial needs. Why have these institutions succeeded in providing services to the poor when formal institutions have not? Do these informal institutions provide any less...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Sharma, Manohar Zeller, Manfred |
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| description | In most developing countries, it is the private, informal markets that the rural poor have traditionally turned to service their financial needs. Why have these institutions succeeded in providing services to the poor when formal institutions have not? Do these informal institutions provide any lessons that bigger formal institutions could use? What are their basic limitations? Answers to such questions indicate important direc-tions for public policy. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1564312025-01-10T06:35:35Z Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? Sharma, Manohar Zeller, Manfred microfinance evaluation microenterprises non-governmental organizations government purchases poverty alleviation In most developing countries, it is the private, informal markets that the rural poor have traditionally turned to service their financial needs. Why have these institutions succeeded in providing services to the poor when formal institutions have not? Do these informal institutions provide any lessons that bigger formal institutions could use? What are their basic limitations? Answers to such questions indicate important direc-tions for public policy. 2000 2024-10-24T12:44:08Z 2024-10-24T12:44:08Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156431 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Sharma, Manohar; Zeller, Manfred. 2000. Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? Rural Financial Policies for Food Security of the Poor Policy Brief 8. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156431 |
| spellingShingle | microfinance evaluation microenterprises non-governmental organizations government purchases poverty alleviation Sharma, Manohar Zeller, Manfred Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? |
| title | Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? |
| title_full | Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? |
| title_fullStr | Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? |
| title_short | Rural Finance Policies 8 - Informal markets: what lessons can we learn from them? |
| title_sort | rural finance policies 8 informal markets what lessons can we learn from them |
| topic | microfinance evaluation microenterprises non-governmental organizations government purchases poverty alleviation |
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