Rural Finance

Selected resources on rural finance and savings mobilization.

Overview of Small Savings Mobilization on Rural Areas

• A Symposium on Savings-Led Microfinance and the Rural Poor, 2002
• Carter, M., Waters, E., Branch, B., Ito, L. & Ford, C., Rethinking Rural Finance: A Synthesis of the 'Paving the Way Forward for Rural Finance Conference', 2004

Client Preferences on Rural Areas

• Bakeine, A. S. N., An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Demand for Savings Services by Rural Savers in Uganda: A Case Study of Kibaale District, 2001
• Mutesasira, L., Savings and need in East Africa: an infinite variety, 2001

Donors and their Participation on Rural Areas

• Ashe, J., Banking on the Poor: Saving and Lending Groups for the Poor, 2005
• Goodwin-Groen, R., Success in Rural Savings: How one Donor Led the Way (Donor Good Practice Case Study No. 1), 2003

Product Development for Rural Areas

• Buchenau, J., Innovative Products and Adaptations for Rural Finance, 2003
• Evans, A. C. & Ford, C. A Technical Guide to Rural Finance - Exploring Products, 2003
• Johnson, S., Malkamaki, M., Mukwana, P. & Wanjau, K., One Step Beyond: Challenges and Opportunities in Promoting Quality Financial Services in Remoter Areas, 2002 

Regulation for Rural Finance

• Mishra, A., Coordination failure in the rural credit markets, 2001
• Steel, W. & Andah, D., Rural and Micro Finance Regulation in Ghana: Implications for Development and Performance of the Industry, 2003

Technology for Rural Areas

• Campaigne, J., Business Transactions for Smallholder Farmers and Entrepreneurs via DRUMNET, 2002

Case Studies on Rural Finance

• Beinpuo, F., Group Intermediation in Ghana. The Credit with Education Programme, 2004
• Campion, A. and Owens, J., MABS: A Sustainable Approach to Rural Microfinance, 2003
• Chao-Beroff, R. Rural Savings Mobilization in West Africa: Guard Against Shocks or Build an Asset Base?, 2003
• Dzingirai, V., Saving to death: A study of group based and other saving arrangements in rural Chivi District, 2000
• Grant, W. J. & Allen, H. C., CARE's Mata Masu Dubara (MMD) Program in Niger - Successful Financial Intermediation in the Rural Sahel, 2002
• Goodwin-Groen, R., Success in Rural Savings: How one Donor Led the Way (Donor Good Practice Case Study No. 1), 2003
• Kuhn, M.E. & Darroch, M.A.G. & Ortmann, G.F. & Graham, D, Improving the provision of financial services to micro-entrepreneurs, emerging farmers and agribusiness, lessons from Kwazulu-Natal, 2000
• Mutesasira, L. & Sebageni, G. & Kaggwa, S., Where There is no Banker - Financial Systems in Remote Uganda, 2002
• Schreiner, M., Microfinance in Rural Argentina, 2001
• Seibel, H.D., Lubbock. A. & Dommel, H., Women and Men in Rural Finance in the Syrian Arab Republic: State-Owned Banking vs. Self-Managed Microfinance, 2002
• Key, N., Savings, Credit and the Self-Finance of Crop Production in Mexico, 2000
• Zapata, G., Community Savings Funds - Providing Access to Basic Financial Services in Marginalized Rural Areas of Mexico, 2002