What measures could be taken to entice foreign investment in Myanmar’s agriculture sector?
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Articles & Analysis | Increasing credit options available to Myanmar's small-hold farmers from The Report: Myanmar 2017
While the financial services industry in Myanmar continues to move forward, the provision of funding remains the biggest roadblock to small-hold farmers. For the most part, banks lack flexibility due to rigid interest rates and overprotective collateral-based lending, which hinders their ability to provide finance to farmers. Likewise, a lack...
Chapter | Agriculture & Forestry from The Report: Myanmar 2017
The agriculture sector is already gaining ground from relaxed trade policies. Future potential, however, will depend on the ease of its transition from a supply-led industry to one determined by demand. For the short term, Myanmar will rely on consumption trends in India and China. It is unclear how long it will take the country to successfully penetrate international markets outside of Asia,...
Myanmar today is a country undergoing rapid change, and there is a solid determination among its people and leaders alike to help their country establish an important place at the global political and economic table.
National efforts to modernise Tanzania’s underdeveloped agricultural industry received a major boost at the end of 2016, in the form of a $93.5m loan from the African Development Bank.
Articles & Analysis | New agricultural investment strategy sparks foreign investment deals in Algeria from The Report: Algeria 2016
In April 2016 Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi, then-minister of agriculture, rural development and fisheries, announced the upcoming launch of a Policy and Investment Promotion Roadmap, which aims to promote foreign direct investment and modernise Algeria’s agriculture sector. The pending roadmap comes amidst a number of other reforms that look to...