Improving acess to finance for India's rural poor / / Priya Basu

• Autore: Basu Priya <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2006]; copyright 2006
• Descrizione fisica: xxvii, 119 pages : illustrations ; ; 23 cm
• Disciplina: 332.1086/9420954
• Soggetto topico: Finance - India; Microfinance - India; Rural poor - India; Financial institutions - India
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-114) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Executive Summary; Figures; 1. Introduction; 2. Access to Rural Finance in India: The Evidence; Tables; 3. What Constrains Access to Finance for India's Rural Poor?; Boxes; 4. Recent Efforts in India to Improve Rural Access to Finance: The Role of Formal-Informal Linkages and New Products; 5. Meeting the Challenge of Scaling Up Access to Finance for India's Rural Poor: The Policy Agenda; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Finance is an extraordinarily effective tool in spreading economic opportunity and fighting poverty. India has a relatively deep financial system and wide network of rural banks. But India?s financial markets and institutions have not served poor people well; despite improvements in the delivery of financial services over the past three decades, the vast majority of India?s poor households, who are concentrated in rural areas, do not have access to formal finance. Improving Access to Finance for India's Rural Poor examines the current level and pattern of access to finance for India?s rural ho
• Titolo autorizzato: Improving acess to finance for India's rural poor
• ISBN: 1-280-46279-5; 9786610462797; 0-8213-6147-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819947003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.); World Bank e-Library.