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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
wiley   +1 more source

Conditions for reducing non-repayment of loans

open access: yesВестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета
Introduction. In the modern world of banking business, an important area is the procedure for reducing non-repayment of loans, since large volumes of non-returned loan funds entail negative consequences in the financial activities of the bank. Currently,
O. I. Ditsulenko   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Syndicated loans, lending relationships and the business cycle

open access: yes, 2008
The syndicated loan market, as a hybrid between public and private debt markets, comprises financial institutions with access to valuable private information about borrowers as a result of close bank-borrower relationships.
Wahrenburg, Mark, Steffen, Sascha
core  

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SUBJECTS OF LEGAL RELATIONS IN THE SPHERE OF CREDITING IN FOREIGN CURRENCY

open access: yesЕкономіка та право, 2018
The article is devoted to the exploration of the features of the subject structure of legal relations in the field of lending in foreign currency. The general theoretical questions of the subject structure of legal relations connected with consumer ...
S.A. Syrovatkin
doaj   +1 more source

A computational model of the effects of borrower default on the stability of P2P lending platforms

open access: yes
2024 Acuerdos transformativos CRUEPeer-to-peer (P2P) lending has attracted scholarly attention because of its economic significance and potential to democratize access to finance.
Katsamakas, Evangelos   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

TEACHING METHODOLOGY: THE LESSON ON THE TOPIC “AGREEMENT ON THE UNCOMPENSATED USE OF PROPERTY (LOAN)”

open access: yesФинансы: теория и практика, 2017
The author shares her experience of training the students of the law faculty on the theme “Agreement on uncompensated use (loan)”. Many lecturers do not pay due attention to this topic, considering it as archaic in the market relations conditions. Indeed,
V. N. Sinelnikova
doaj   +1 more source

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