Agricultural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in Transition Economies
Subtitle: Proceedings of OECD Expert Meeting, Moscow, February 1999
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789264173811
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Description: 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
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Kumiharu Shigehara; title: Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations; title: Summary; title: Session I. Setting the Stage: Overview of Agricultural Finance in Transition Economies; title: Results of the Previous "Expert Meeting on Agricultural Finance in Transition Economies" by Fujiki Hayashi; title: Situation in the Banking System and in Financial Markets in Russia and Selected Countries in Transition by Douglas Sutherland; title: Preconditions for Sustainable Agricultural Finance and Credit Systems by J. D. Von Pischke; title: Agricultural Finance and Institutional Reforms in Transition Economies by Johan Swinnen; title: Agricultural Finance and Institutional Reforms in Romania by Camelia Serbanescu; title: Status and Prospects of Creating a Favourable Investment Climate in the Agroindustrial Complex of Russia by Victor Khlystun; title: Session II: Banking for the Agricultural Sector; title: Banking for the Agricultural Sector in OECD Countries: Perspectives from the United States Experience by Marvin Duncan; title: Case Study: New Zealand, Commercial Banking and the Agricultural Sector - Lessons from Economic Restructuring by Neil Gow; title: Conditions for Creating a Farm Credit System by Andre Neveu; title: The Groundwork for Agricultural Cooperative Finance in a Transition Economy by Shinji Kawai; title: Rural Banking in Emerging Markets: Can It Work? by Jean-Jacques Deschamps; title: 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; title: Session III: Complementary Commercial Credit Schemes in the Agricultural Sector; title: Leasing, Trade Credit and Commoditiy Financing in OECD Countries by Glenn Pederson; title: The Impact of FDI in the Downstream Sector on Agricultural Finance, Investment, and Production: Evidence from the CEEC by Hamish Gow; title: The Impactof FDI in the Upstream and Downstream Sectors on Investment in Agriculture in the NIS by Christian Foster; title: Practice and Problems of Agricultural Crediting by Private Food Market Operators by Arkadiy Zlochyevskiy; title: Grain Receipts in Economies in Transition: An Introduction to Financing of Warehouse Receipts by Eusebio Martin; title: Agricultural Insurance in a Transition Economy by Jerry Skees; title: Session IV: Credit Subsidies and Credit Guarantees in Agriculture; title: Preferential Credits in Countries in Transition from the Perspective of a Commercial Bank by Gerard Van Empel; title: Credit Support Schemes Provided by the Support and Guarantee Fund for Farmers and Forestry in the Czech Republic by Tomas Doucha; title: The Agricultural Credit Guarantee System in Japan by Takao Yurugi; title: The Activities of the Rural Credit Guarantee Foundation in Hungary by Aniko Ulrich; title: Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund for Nizhny Novgorod Oblast: Key Design Issues by Vera Matusevich; title: Country Notes; title: -Belarus by Teresa Degtyareva; title: Brazil by Marcelo Guimaraes; title: Bulgaria by Experts from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Agrarian Reform (MAFR) and State Fund for Agriculture; title: China by Shaojun Yang; title: Croatia by Vesna Matijasevic; title: Estonia by Katrin Noorkoiv; title: Indonesia by Dibyo Prabowo; title: Kazakhstan by Muratbek Takambayev; title: Slovak Republic by Zuzana Chrastinova