Agricultural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in Transition Economies [electronic resource]: Proceedings of OECD Expert Meeting, Moscow, February 1999 /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
1999.
How to develop an effective and sustainable agricultural and rural finance system in a climate of accumulated debts, insolvency of the majority of agricultural enterprises, low profitability of agricultural production, and an unstable macro-economic situation - How to create a banking system that services agriculture and is adapted to diverse farm structures - How to introduce alternative financial and credit institutions and mechanisms - How to establish contractual arrangements between primary agriculture and the up- and downstream sectors - What should be the role of governments in establishing such systems? These are some of the issues addressed in the proceedings of the OECD expert meeting: "Agricultural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in Transition Economies", held in Moscow in February 1999. The meeting brought together over 200 policy-makers, government officials, independent
Foreword by Kumiharu Shigehara -- Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations -- Summary -- Session I. Setting the Stage: Overview of Agricultural Finance in Transition Economies -- Results of the Previous "Expert Meeting on Agricultural Finance in Transition Economies" by Fujiki Hayashi -- Situation in the Banking System and in Financial Markets in Russia and Selected Countries in Transition by Douglas Sutherland -- Preconditions for Sustainable Agricultural Finance and Credit Systems by J. D. Von Pischke -- Agricultural Finance and Institutional Reforms in Transition Economies by Johan Swinnen -- Agricultural Finance and Institutional Reforms in Romania by Camelia Serbanescu -- Status and Prospects of Creating a Favourable Investment Climate in the Agroindustrial Complex of Russia by Victor Khlystun -- Session II: Banking for the Agricultural Sector -- Banking for the Agricultural Sector in OECD Countries: Perspectives from the United States Experience by Marvin Duncan -- Case Study: New Zealand, Commercial Banking and the Agricultural Sector - Lessons from Economic Restructuring by Neil Gow -- Conditions for Creating a Farm Credit System by Andre Neveu -- The Groundwork for Agricultural Cooperative Finance in a Transition Economy by Shinji Kawai -- Rural Banking in Emerging Markets: Can It Work? by Jean-Jacques Deschamps -- Prospects for the Participation of Commercial Banks in Providing Credit to the Agriculture and Food Sectors in Russia in View of the Financial Crisis by Jury Trushin -- Session III: Complementary Commercial Credit Schemes in the Agricultural Sector -- Leasing, Trade Credit and Commodity Financing in OECD Countries by Glenn Pederson -- The Impact of FDI in the Downstream Sector on Agricultural Finance, Investment, and Production: Evidence from the CEEC by Hamish Gow -- The Impact of FDI in the Upstream and Downstream Sectors on Investment in Agriculture in the NIS by Christian Foster -- Practice and Problems of Agricultural Crediting by Private Food Market Operators by Arkadiy Zlochyevskiy -- Grain Receipts in Economies in Transition: An Introduction to Financing of Warehouse Receipts by Eusebio Martin -- Agricultural Insurance in a Transition Economy by Jerry Skees -- Session IV: Credit Subsidies and Credit Guarantees in Agriculture -- Preferential Credits in Countries in Transition from the Perspective of a Commercial Bank by Gerard Van Empel -- Credit Support Schemes Provided by the Support and Guarantee Fund for Farmers and Forestry in the Czech Republic by Tomas Doucha -- The Agricultural Credit Guarantee System in Japan by Takao Yurugi -- The Activities of the Rural Credit Guarantee Foundation in Hungary by Aniko Ulrich -- Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund for Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Key Design Issues by Vera Matusevich -- Country Notes -- -Belarus by Teresa Degtyareva -- Brazil by Marcelo Guimaraes -- Bulgaria by Experts from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Agrarian Reform (MAFR) and State Fund for Agriculture -- China by Shaojun Yang -- Croatia by Vesna Matijasevic -- Estonia by Katrin Noorkoiv -- Indonesia by Dibyo Prabowo -- Kazakhstan by Muratbek Takambayev -- Slovak Republic by Zuzana Chrastinova
How to develop an effective and sustainable agricultural and rural finance system in a climate of accumulated debts, insolvency of the majority of agricultural enterprises, low profitability of agricultural production, and an unstable macro-economic situation - How to create a banking system that services agriculture and is adapted to diverse farm structures - How to introduce alternative financial and credit institutions and mechanisms - How to establish contractual arrangements between primary agriculture and the up- and downstream sectors - What should be the role of governments in establishing such systems? These are some of the issues addressed in the proceedings of the OECD expert meeting: "Agricultural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in Transition Economies", held in Moscow in February 1999. The meeting brought together over 200 policy-makers, government officials, independent
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