Potential areas of further investment for government and the financial sector include roads, cold storage, transport, support for farmer organisations, agricultural extension, and out grower schemes. It is also necessary to address information asymmetries, for example, by matchmaking international firms and local suppliers.
Bank borrowing by euro area non-financial corporations was 14.4% higher at the end of December 2007 than a year earlier. For the time being, there is little evidence that the financial market turbulence since early August 2007 has strongly influenced the dynamics of broad money and credit aggregates.