Table 3-Continued Region, Country, and Income Group SIiddle-incoie countries Argentina larbildos Belize Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Gutatemala 1llogiditras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Surinam Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Uruguay Vnezuela Average 30 Percent of Density of Field-Level RFls Not Vertically RFIsb Organized' Year Density (1) (2) (3) 33 nMa. n.a. 0 na. n.a. 25 n.a. n.a. 0 na. .a. 0 na. ni. 0 na. na. 0 na. na. 0 na. na. 25 nMa. n.a. 25 a. na. 0 na. na. 0 na. na. 33 n.a. n.a. 25 a. na. 0 na. n a. 0 na. ia. 33 a a 25 ita. na. 20 na. .a. 33 na. na. 25 nia. n.a. 20 na. na. 0 na. na. 25 na. na. 67 na. na. 33 na. na. 0 na. i.a. I.I na. na. Proportion of Rural People Borrowing from RFIs Year Percent (4) (5) n.a. nMa. i1.a. n.a. na. n.a. 1975 15.0 1975 28.0 1975 38.0 n.a. n1a. n.a. n.a. nMa. i.ta. 1975 1,1.0 1975 18.0 1975 9.0 n.a. n.a. 1975 2.0 1975 10.0 1975 65.0 .ak. 1na. 1975 20.0 1975 20.0 1975 20.0 1975 1.0 1975 21.0 n.a. n.a. 1975 10.0 na. n.a. na. na. i1 .a. La. 1975 22.6 1985; Donald 1976; FAO 1973, 1974la, Sources: Asian Productivity Organization 198-1, 19711), 1975, 1976; Kato 1966, 198.1; Olin 1975; Rangaratjan 1971; Reserve Bank of India v%,rios issues a. variotts issues b; and \%,idayati 1985. Note: I.a. itteans tnot available. those [hat have regional, national, and local-level institu 'Vertically organized RFIs ate tions. 1Density of field-level RlIs is ncasutred as the nut titber of these institutions per 1,000 hectares of arable land. 'The Peoples' Republic of China is excluded.
31 LICs (including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, and Sri Lanka). The correlation between income and density of RFIs is bornc out when Asian MICs and LICs are compared (Taiwan and the Republic of Korea as against the Philippines and Thailand, for example; o Chiia, India, Nepal, and S-i Ianka as against Bangladesh and Indonesia). Two additional observations may be made. First, the countries of North America and Western Europe are likely to have a higher density of field-level RFIs thanjapan. And second, many countries in Africa, the Near East and Mediterranean Basin, and Latin America and the Caribbean have very low densities; the proportion of farmers covered by RF in these regions is lower than in Asia. Proportion of Rural Households Reached by an RFI System Tile importance of covering a high proportion of rural households cannot be questioned. Agricultural ciedlit policy also iiins at larger coverage of rural households not only to meet their credit needs, bIit also to provide a place to deposit excess liquidity whenever it arises during production and consumption cycles. The following findings are derived fion cohrinii 5 ini T;dle 3. First, the share of rural people borrowing from RFIs is higlher in MICs than in lICs, no matter in w lticlhl dvelopilig-coilnry region the cotlry is located. Second, for tile region as a whole, lie share of' bolrowers is highest in Asia (23.55), followed by li.atin America and tile Caribbean (20.,47), the Near East and Mediterranean Basin (9.10), and Suil-Salia'ai Africa (6.11). Third, this ordering of tile four regions remains tilichanged when countries wid 'cry high perccitages are excluded; Asia (13.78 percent), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (13.07), then the Near Eas: and Mediterraneai Basin (9.,40), and lastly Africa (6. 11). And fourth, two recently developed Asian MICs, Taiwan and the Republic of Korea, have RFI systems reaching the largest pIoportiol of rural households.9 Another policy concern is the i)Loportio,, of small farmuiers reachned by RFIs. Available data on 17 countries suggest 'hat Ihe share of small farmers reached is highest in Asian MICs (pai,icilarly Taiwai), followed 81n Sone cases, tlie association I)ciwecll agricrrlil lg. 'ls l ol " I)(l (ia)ila tea;t national income and density of RFIs among Asian tICs is not app;,enl., Suggesting ihat other factors also influence density. These include va'ied agroclinralic environlnent, terain1 of the countrN,, and size of the rural population. Consequenrtly, strong positive assuJclitio may not result, particularly in the short- to medium-term period. 9 "this share is, however, lower in the Republic of Korea than inJanmaica or Pcr m. This may be because the ,ear to which dala refcr man have extra rdinarily low alrid high figures. Moreover, the Korean RFI system is widely acclainied as successfu, but tlre Jamaican and Peruvian systems are not (Adams 1988h; Asiani P'roduchiviv Olgainization 198.1; Brake 1971; Donald 1976; FAO 1 9 74a, 1975; Kato 198.1; D. I. Lee 198.1; and Olin 1975).
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