This chapter describes the current institutional framework of the Serbian agricultural sector, beginning with a brief account of the key historical developments that have influenced this framework. Specifically, it examines institutional developments that have implications for the alignment of...

This chapter discusses the financial interventions implemented under the Upper Mandrare River Basin Development Project (PHBM) in Madagascar. A network of nine branches of FIVOY (Fitehirizana Vola Ifampisamborana; literally "Plan for securing money to borrow") was set up in the project area. The...

This chapter examines the unfulfilled promise of financial service associations (FSAs) and highlights the unintended, detrimental effects that they have had on their poorer members in Kenya. A form of microfinance institution in which equity capital for the loans fund is generated by selling shares ...

This paper addresses the situation where a country has already decided that it wants to assign an organization for water resources management. The ways of supplying financial resources and the impacts of financing processes on the behaviour and effectiveness of the organization, and on the people...