杜志雄老师简介：1963年2月出生。安徽铜陵人，研究员，博士生导师。中国社会科学院农村发展研究所副所长。1981年9月至1985年7月在中国人民大学农业经济系学习，获经济学学士学位；1988年9月至1992年3月在中国社会科学院研究生院学习，获经济学硕士学位；2002年12月至2007年3月在日本东京大学农学部在职学习（JSPS -RONPAKU (DISSERTATION PhD) PROGRAM），获农学博士学位。1985年8月至今在中国社会科学院农村发展研究所工作，历任实习研究员、助理研究员、副研究员、研究员，研究室副主任、主任、所科研处处长、所长助理；现任农村发展研究所副所长。兼任中国国外农业经济学研究会秘书长、国家科技部国家可持续发展实验区专家委员会委员、中国土畜进出口商会专家委员会委员等。


晨起，接到一个网上认识的学生来信，问我“有好的农村金融学或农业经济学外文教材或专著吗？给推荐一下啊？”
本人历来对热爱学习的学生和后辈都给予尊敬并提供力所能及的帮助。为此，就自己的了解，给了该学生答复。但我对英文教科书真的不熟悉。因此，搬来这里一为那些也许有同样需求的学生参考，二者也盼了解这方面情况的练家子给予补充和指正。   
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** 同学：
    你好！
    邮件收悉。我不是大学教师，对教材不是很熟悉。
对农经这个学科，我强烈建议你阅读本世纪初前后美国耶鲁大学的教授们编写的一套农业经济学手册(Handbook of Agricultural Economics：Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets)，这套书的特点是内容全、易懂。我曾经使用这本书里的主要章节帮我的一位本科学习飞机发动机的硕士生初步实现了学科的转化。其主要内容有:
I Introduction Overview: Robert E. Evenson and Prabhu Pingali
II Human Resources and Technology Mastery
Chapter 1 – Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition: Wallace Huffman and Peter F. Orazem
Chapter 2 - Extension: Gershon Feder and Jock R. Anderson
III Invention and Innovation
Chapter 3 - The Role of International Agricultural Research in Contributing to Global Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: the case of the CGIAR: Prabhu Pingali and Tim Kelley
Chapter 4 - Contributions of National Agricultural Research Systems to Crop Productivity: Robert E. Evenson & Douglas Gollin
Chapter 5 - Livestock Productivity in Developing Countries: An Assessment: Simeon Ehui, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Samuel Benin
Chapter 6 - Agricultural Innovations: Investments and Incentives: Brian D. Wright, Philip G. Pardey, Carol Nottenburg and Bonwoo Koo
Chapter 7 - Private Agricultural Research: Carl E. Pray, Keith Fuglie and Daniel K.N. Johnson Chapter 8 – Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries: Robert Herdt, Gary Toenniessen and John O?Toole
IV Markets, Institutions and Transaction Costs
Chapter 9 - Efficiency and Equity Effects of Land Markets: Keijiro Otsuka
Chapter 10 - Labor: Decisions, Contracts and Organization: James Roumasset and Sang-Hyop Lee Chapter 11 – Fertilizer and Other Farm Chemicals: Paul W. Heisey and George W. Norton
Chapter 12 – Agricultural Mechanization: Adoption Patterns and Economic Impact: Prabhu Pingali Chapter 13 - Transformation: Thomas Reardon and C. Peter Timmer
Chapter 14 - Financial Markets: Christopher R. Udry and Jonathan Conning
V Natural Resources
Chapter 15 - Soil Quality and Agricultural Development: Pierre R. Crosson
Chapter 16 - The Economics of Water, Irrigation and Development: David Zilberman and Karina Schoengold
Chapter 17 - Land Use: Forest, Agriculture and Biodiversity Competition: Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson
Chapter 18 - Past Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: Robert O. Mendelsohn

关于农村金融, 有两本近些年出版的英文著作对了解当代农村金融研究和实践的主线，绝对有帮助，一是2005年出版的《小额信贷经济学》（Economics of Microfinance），其主要内容有:
1 Rethinking Banking
2 Why Intervene in Credit Markets?  
3 Roots of Microfinance: ROSCAs and Credit Cooperatives  
4 Group Lending  
5 Beyond Group Lending  
6 Savings and Insurance  
7 Gender  
8 Measuring Impacts
9 Subsidy and Sustainability
10 Managing Microfinance

还有一本是2006年世界银行出版的蓝皮书《为发展构建一个普惠制金融部门》（Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development）。其内容有:
Foreword by the Secretary-General  
Preface  
Chapter I  SETTING THE STAGE FOR BUILDING INCLUSIVE FINANCIAL SECTORS
Chapter II  WHAT LIMITS ACCESS TO FORMAL FINANCIAL SERVICES?  
Issue 1. Who you are and where you live matters
Issue 2. How you make your living matters  
Issue 3. Compromised confidence in financial institutions  
Issue 4. The attractiveness of the product matters  
Chapter III WHY RETAIL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS CAN SERVE POOR AND LOW-INCOME PEOPLE BETTER
Issue 1. Profitability, risk and incentive structures  
Issue 2. “Small is beautiful, but large is necessary”  
Issue 3. Lack of innovation prevents closing the gap between supply and demand
Chapter IV ACCESS TO FINANCIAL MARKETS: A CHALLENGE FOR MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS  
Issue 1. Impact of weak financial sectors on MFIs
Issue 2. Limited access of MFIs to domestic financial markets  
Issue 3. International borrowing: Opportunity and risk
Issue 4. Drawing resources from the domestic economy: Savings as an alternative funding source
Chapter V THE POLICY FRAMEWORK AND PUBLIC SECTOR ROLE IN INCLUSIVE FINANCE
Issue 1. Country level policy frameworks: From vision to strategy
Issue 2. There is still no consensus on the liberalization of interest rates
Issue 3. How much government involvement in financial intermediation?
Issue 4. The role of subsidies and taxation  
Issue 5. Policies to broaden and strengthen financial infrastructure  
Chapter VI LEGAL MODELS, REGULATION AND SUPERVISION IN THE CONTEXT OF INCLUSIVE FINANCE
Issue 1. There is still uncertainty about what, when and how to regulate
Issue 2. The challenges of applying tiered regulation and risk-based supervision to microfinance
Issue 3. The need to focus on the adequacy of supervision  
Issue 4. Should regulation incorporate access to financial services as a policy goal?
Issue 5. New regulatory issues that need to be considered  
Chapter VII POLICY ISSUES AND STRATEGIC OPTIONS  
Option Set 1._Government intervention in the market for financial services: how much intervention, what kind, where and when?  
Option Set 2._How can we achieve affordable and sustainable interest rates?  
Option Set 3._How to fashion financial infrastructure for inclusive finance?  
Option Set 4._What should regulators and supervisors do to foster financial inclusion?
Option Set 5._How to promote consumer protection?  
Option Set 6._How many financial institutions and of what types?  
Option Set 7._How should governments be organized to promote financial inclusion?  
Chapter VIII DIALOGUE AS A PRELUDE TO ACTION  
REFERENCES  
FURTHER READING  
Boxes
Box I.1._Access to financial services in developed and developing countries  
Box I.2. The paradigm shift and terminology: Microfinance and inclusive finance: how are they different?
Box I.3._Extending access to financial services: European antecedents  
Box I.4._The providers of financial services to poor and low-income people
Box I.5._“Alternative financial institutions” in developing countries
Box II.1. The “school-based banking scheme” in Thailand
Box II.2._Smart technology and customer illiteracy
Box II.3._The microcredit upheaval in Bolivia  
Box II.4._The insurance pyramid  
Box III.1._Three different approaches to commercial bank engagement with microfinance  
Box III.2._Standardized products at high volume: The case of BRI-Units  
Box. IV.1._Recent MFI bond issues  
Box IV.2._Securitization: An example  
Box IV.3._International funds mitigating foreign exchange risk: Some examples
Box V.1._Examples of government policy stances on microfinance  
Box V.2._Inclusive financial sector development policies  
Box V.3._South Africa’s Financial Sector Charter  
Box V.4._Country experiences with interest rate ceilings
Box V.5._Experience in Bangladesh in lowering costs  
Box V.6._Recent experiences in directed lending programmes
Box V.7._Subsidy and efficiency in MFIs  
Box VI.1._The Microfinance Regulation and Supervision Resource Center
Box VI.2._Applying risk-based supervision in the Philippines  
Box. VI.3._Proposed regulatory adjustments to expand access to financial services
Box VIII.1. Key reference documents on international good practices on access to finance  
Box VIII.2._Senegal: Building a vision for an inclusive financial sector
Tables
Table I.1._Microcredit in Latin America, 2004  
Table VI.1._When should savings mobilization be regulated?
Table VI.2._Degrees of regulation and oversight  
Table VI.3._Microfinance risk and regulatory considerations
Table. VI.4._A framework to evaluate regulation in South Africa  
Figures
Figure III.1.__A survey of banks, MFIs and NGOs in Latin America and the Caribbean
by ACCIóN International, 2004  
Figure III.2a._Cost reduction and efficiency: Trends from the MicroBanking Bulletin  
Figure III.2b.__Provision expense ratios as a percentage of total assets and write-off ratios for non-sustainable and sustainable MFIs: Trends from the MicroBanking Bulletin  
Figure III.3._Product offerings in Latin American financial institutions
Figure IV.1._Accessing financial markets: Progressive stages for MFIs