Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/23548 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003,4
Publisher: 
Universität zu Köln, Arbeitsstelle für Entwicklungsländerforschung (AEF), Köln
Abstract: 
This Conference brings together the financial experience of rural and agricultural microfinance institutions and the experience of the Common Fund and other agencies with promoting commodities and small and micro-entrepreneurs producing, processing and marketing commodities. We expect that this will result in: – the further growth and development of sustainable financial services; and – the further growth and development of sustainable commodity-related enterprises. These two objectives – the growth of profitable local financial institutions and of profitable local enterprises – are interrelated and mutually reinforcing. There is one lesson to be learned from the now developed industrial countries: Focusing in an early stage of development on the poor, who largely depend on commodities, means focusing on a huge future market. We hope to get this message across to large numbers of financial institutions.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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