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