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Banks and other financial institutions have been extremely reluctant to engage in rural finance – and even more so in agricultural finance – for a number of reasons. The remoteness of rural clients coupled with poor rural infrastructure and lack of branch networks imply a high cost of service delivery and, as a result, profitability is assumed to be low.
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Maurer, K. (2014). Where Is the Risk? Is Agricultural Banking Really More Difficult than Other Sectors?. In: Köhn, D. (eds) Finance for Food. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54034-9_7
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