Tag: Strategic business planning

In this video Renée Chao-Beroff, Director, Microfinance Department, CIDR; General Manager, Pamiga gives an overview of the ways in which rural markets are segmented and how financial intermediaries can develop appropriate products and delivery mechanisms to navigate the risks of agricultural and rural lending. She emphasises on the importance of market segmentation and analysing risk […]

In this video Renée Chao-Beroff, Director, Microfinance Department, CIDR; General Manager, Pamiga tells that agricultural microfinance has developed despite the challenges that it faces. She explains the rise in demand for agriculture products especially in the emerging markets and how the rural population are mitigating risks through diversifying their produce. She adds that new actors, […]

In this video Richard L. Meyer, Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University talks about Bank for Agriculture and Agriculture Cooperatives (BAAC) Thailand, which is a specialised agriculture lending financial institution within the microfinance sector. Elaborating on BAAC, Richard says that the bank serves both large and small farmers through individual lending and group lending. […]

“In this video Richard L. Meyer, Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University, discusses the major challenges associated with agricultural credit. Stressing on the need for change in the attitude towards repayment among farmers, Meyer says that the attributes that make financing difficult for agriculture are many such as agriculture clients are geographically disperse, thus, […]

This note focuses -HRM must be treated as a strategic function, must be integrated into all other strategic planning and implementation.

The note examines why the take-up of m-banking services has often been slower than anticipated, and highlights the importance of financial education programmes.