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AGROBANK – Charting a New Path to Sustainable Growth
A case study by the Cambridge IF Analytica. Flipping through the latest data on the bank’s performance, Wan Mohd Fadzmi Wan Othman, President and CEO of Agrobank, found himself recounting the exciteme...
One Size Does Not Fit All: Cooperative Banking and Income In...
The re-regulation wave following the global financial crisis is putting pressure on local community and cooperative banks. In this paper, the authors show that cooperative banking can play a pivotal r...
Rabobank: An Introduction
An introduction to Rabobank's work on Agrifinance and SME finance.
Colombia Agriculture Finance Diagnostic
The purpose of this note is to provide policy recommendations to improve access to credit for rural populations and small agricultural producers under financially sustainable schemes. Improving access...
Rwanda Agriculture Finance Diagnostic
The report identifies several challenges to increasing access to financial services to the agricultural sector. These relate to the enabling environment (limited availability and quality of publicly a...
The FY19 Advisory Services Creating Markets Special Competit...
SmartLessons is an IFC lessons and awards program sponsored by the Global Knowledge and Learning Office. The Program encourages and enables staff to share lessons learned in development operations. Sm...
Taxing Mobile Phone Transactions in Africa: Lessons from Ken...
This paper shows that taxation on mobile phone airtime and financial transactions may not expand the tax base significantly but, rather, may reverse the gains on retail electronic payments and financi...
Tell-Tale Signs Finance Farming is Ready to Scale: Demonstra...
This document shares what has been learned about the effectiveness of specific interventions piloted in the Rural Finance Best Practices (RuFBeP) project by IFAD and APRACA with a view to improving in...
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019
This report presents an update to the findings of previous GSMA research on the mobile gender gap conducted in 2015 and 2018 in low, lower-middle and upper-middle income countries. Some of the key fin...
Press Release: Challenge Fund for Innovation on Agricultural...
Three innovative projects designed to help countries in Southern Africa protect against the risk of agricultural disasters have won a Challenge Fund led by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction a...
Lending to Agri-Cooperatives: Kenya
This presentation was delivered by Maina Ndirangu from Co-Operative Bank of Kenya at the AgriFin Financing Agriculture Forum 2012. This presentation describes its lending model, key success factors, c...
Lessons from AgriFin Study Tour in India
In October 2015, AgriFin organized a study tour to visit HDFC Bank and Mahindra Finance in Jaipur, India. The two host organizations in India are pioneers in regards to reaching smallholders and provi...