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Rural Development: Availability of Capital for Agriculture, Business, and Infrastructure

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 27, 1997
Report No. RCED-97-109
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Summary:

This report examines the availability of capital in rural America for agriculture, business, and community infrastructure. GAO describes the primary financial institutions that are used to finance agriculture, rural businesses, and rural communities' infrastructure and discusses the views of rural officials on (1) whether rural borrowers have difficulty in obtaining access to capital, (2) whether rural borrowers have adequate knowledge of the availability of financial assistance, and (3) what potential alternatives may be used to improve the availability of capital.

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