brief
Innovations in rural and agricultural finance: Rural banking in Africa
The Rabobank approach
2020 vision focus brief | 2010 | Pages: 2
Open Access
Many people in the vast rural areas of Africa lack access to financial services, and most commercial banks are not interested in moving into these areas due to their low income levels, lack of scale economies, and poor infrastructure. Also, few banks actually understand the most common economic activity in rural areas: agriculture.