Limited access to credit

Consumers have better access to credit.

Small, innovative firms need enhanced access to credit.

However, there are constraints related to access to credit.

Facilitating access to credit from banks and financial institutions.

Inadequate production credit, lack of access to extension services.

Access to formal credit and credit for investment, regardless of the source, continues to be insufficient for women.

It means expanding access to credit and financial services everywhere.

Access to credit enabled women to initiate, sustain and increase productivity.

Table 17 Access to credit by the employed population, 1995 2001

Some credit unions existed through which women had access to loans.

More equitable access to credit is also critical for women's economic empowerment.

Having access to insured credit, banks shareholders find it irresistible to borrow excessively.

Women's access to land and credit was equally important to their economic empowerment.

In this context, the traditional gender gaps in access to credit are apparent.

Kindly comment on rural women's access to credit and land and savings cooperatives.

Financial services small loans to microentrepreneurs who have no access to conventional bank credit.

As land is the major asset used as collateral to obtain rural credit, women have limited access to credit facilities.6 Withdrawal of credit provided by the Government in rural areas as the result of an increased liberalization and privatization of the financial sector can make access to credit even more difficult for women.

Credit lines should be kept open to smaller businesses, which employ the bulk of the world s workers but have the least access to credit.

Cuba had taken measures to facilitate SME access to credit, particularly in the agricultural sector.

However, in most countries, young people have very limited access to land or credit.

12.6 Access of rural women to credit, loans for poultry farming and marketing services

Some access is available through Co Operatives and the Credit Unions.

Legislation had been enacted to eliminate discrimination against women in access to credit, including mortgage loans.

They were also non governmental mechanisms aimed at ensuring all women had access to credit.

There are too many entry barriers to the poor, the innovative, and those without access to credit.

States should facilitate access to credit and subsidies for projects, designed to empower women of African descent.

(e) Ensuring equal access of women to productive assets and resources, including land, credit and technology

Proper access to credit for productive segments is an integral part of a well functioning economy.

People will not spend normally unless they have both a job and normal access to credit.

In this respect, the law that regulates Association and Access to Credit has already been reviewed.

There is no law or rule denying women access to credit, but discrimination exists in practice.

The indigent or those who did not qualify for microcredit could get unguaranteed credit the others had access to the types of credit listed in the report.

At the same time, expanded access to credit has supported a building boom to meet vast untapped demand.

She has no insurance against erratic weather patterns, gets no subsidies, and has no access to credit.

Measures that promote general economic growth in rural areas should benefit forest related enterprises, for example through access to credit, infrastructure development and improved access to markets.

The short sighted political response to the anxieties of those falling behind was to ease their access to credit.

This would generalize and extend its Flexible Credit Line (FCL), under which countries with impeccable credentials are prequalified for automatic access to IMF credit without having to accept onerous conditions.

At the same time, additional initiatives have been taken to increase the access to finance of credit worthy enterprises.

Her country had created specific programmes to give women equal access to resources, employment, property, credit, markets and trade.

The gender gap in access to credit remains a reality in Nicaragua, even taking into account the modest proportion of the overall population which has access to that resource.

(iv) enhance the access of developing countries to affordable credit and allocate funds for improving legal and regulatory conditions

In the run up to the G20 summit access to the Fund s credit facilities was increased and policy conditions were streamlined.

(c) To establish a permanent dialogue on investment, the expansion of the entrepreneurial base and access to credit and technical assistance

However, laws exist, which protect women in the family and society, and gives her the conditions necessary for access and control of the land, and easy access to credit.