Rural Credit in a Market Regime

Thomas A Timberg Rural Credit Issues for the Nineties edited by Surjeet Singh; Oxford and IBH Co, Delhi. 1992.
THIS book contains the proceedings of a national seminar on rural credit sponsored by the Institute of Development Studies in Jaipur in August 1990 and attended by leading experts on issues affecting rural credit. The proceedings are fresh, accurate and stimulating, and reflect all the contradictions and difficulties, as well as the accomplishments, of the national rural credit system. The background papers, including a first-rate keynote address by R N Malhotra, are all quite interesting; nevertheless, one does wish that this volume contained more of the elements commonly found in a book. It includes an index, but has no bibliography or consolidated statistical appendix. It does, however, contain an excellent summary of the seminar discussion by Surjeet Singh.