Description

This book focuses on rural finance development issues in a set of countries about which little current literature on the subject exists. It also represents an attempt to redress a serious imbalance in the attention paid to rural financial market development that has been created by the overwhelming interest in and emphasis on microfinance during the last 2 decades.

Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• From Agricultural Credit to Rural Finance: In Search of a New Paradigm
• Rural Finance in Central Asia: Emergence and Challenges
• Rural Finance in Azerbaijan
• Rural Finance in Kazakhstan
• Rural Finance in the Kyrgyz Republic
• Rural Finance in Mongolia
• Rural Finance in Tajikistan
• Rural Finance in Uzbekistan
• Moving Toward Inclusive Rural Financial Markets in Central Asia