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Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas; 2.1 billion of them live on less than two U.S. dollars a day and 880 million on less than one dollar a day. Most of these people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.
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Hartig, P., Jainzik, M., Pfeiffer, K. (2014). The Potential of Structured Finance to Foster Agricultural Lending in Developing Countries. In: Köhn, D. (eds) Finance for Food. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54034-9_8
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