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29-30 May 2001, Portoroz, Slovenia
The third expert meeting in this series was co-organised by the Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and the Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs of the OECD under the aegis of its Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members programme, with co-sponsorship by the Government of Japan and local support from the Slovenian authorities and targeted to Southeast European countries, Russia and Ukraine. Over 90 participants attended, with active participation by the World Bank, FAO and the European Commission. In addition to transmitting the policy lessons and techniques from the previous meetings, this workshop targeted new areas of particular relevance to the fast evolving situation in the region, i.e. co-operative structures and credit, viable forms of non-bank lending including trade and micro-credit, and equity financing for women. Such alternatives to bank lending are particularly relevant during periods of macroeconomic instability and poorly functioning financial markets. They meet the needs that are characteristic of small-scale farms and related businesses in the rural areas concerned. The heterogeneity among countries and their different stages of transition pose complex issues of policy mix and policy sequencing. Increasingly, lending to agriculture needs to be dealt with in the context of the rural sector as a whole.
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