Toward Paradigm Shift of Asian Rural Finance Research: Comparative Regional Analysis from the Viewpoint of Rural Social Structure

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24380124
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agro-economics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: FUJITA KOICHI 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 教授 (80272441)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OHNO Akihiko 青山学院大学, 国際政治経済学部, 教授 (20176960) ; KAJISA Kei 青山学院大学, 国際政治経済学部, 教授 (50377131) ; SAKANE Yoshihiro 広島修道大学, 商学部, 教授 (00183046) ; SAKASHITA Akihiko 北海道大学, 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター, 教授 (70170595) ; YONEKURA Hitoshi 東北大学, 大学院農学研究科, 教授 (40312623) ; YANAGISAWA Masayuki 京都大学, 地域統合情報センター, 准教授 (80314269) ; MIENO Fumiharu 京都大学, 東南アジア研究所, 教授 (40272786)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: マイクロファイナンス革命 / 組合余剰金問題 / 農村社会構造 / 東アジアの経験 / 東南アジア・南アジアの現状

Outline of Final Research Achievements

North Vietnam (Red River Delta) does not need microfinance program by NGOs because of the tight structure of villages and local government, same as in Japan, which supports our research hypothesis. However, it is also found that the Red River Delta villages were quite different from the Japanese ones in how villages were functioned vis-a-vis the government, which implies the need for further reserach in future. The cooperatives (village-level savings groups) in Laos were largely successful but the key for further development is, as it was found, to establish federal cooperatives above villages. In Indonesia, the case of which M.S. Robinson's "Microfinance Revolution" (2001) appreciated, the results of our survey show that the microfinance developed thereafter toward an undesirable direction, suggesting the necessity of new paradigm (another revolution) for microfinance in Asia.

Free Research Field

アジア地域研究