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Financial Stratification and Digital Transformation Under Market Disruption: Evidence from Thai SMEs [PDF]
Financial Markets, Institutions and RisksThe increasing frequency of market disruptions in the contemporary global economy has exposed fundamental inequities in small and medium enterprise (SME) financing systems, creating urgent needs for understanding how financial constraints shape digital ...
Sitsada Sartamorn +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +4 more
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Estimating the Effects of Credit Constraints on Productivity of Peruvian Agriculture
EconometricsThis paper proposes an estimator for the endogenous switching regression models with fixed effects. The decision to switch from one regime to the other may depend on unobserved factors, which would cause the state, such as being credit constrained, to be
Tiemen Woutersen +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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Relationship Among R&D, Productivity, and Firm Exports: The Moderating Role of Credit Constraints
Studies in Business and EconomicsInnovative and productive firms are more likely to export and earn a great intensive margin. However, credit constraints may disconnect or distort the linkage between export determinants and export margins.
Zhang Dengjun +4 more
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AgricultureTo ensure food safety and support sustainable development of agriculture, it is critical to accelerate the transition of agricultural production methods and develop green agriculture.
Yilan Xu, Kuan Zhang
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Socioeconomic Challenges in Education: Inequality, Risk, and Rational Investment Decisions [PDF]
SocioEconomic ChallengesThe persistence of socioeconomic challenges related to inequality and unequal access to education highlights the need for a deeper theoretical understanding of how households make educational investment decisions under unequal conditions.
Achintya Ray
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Short-Sale Constraints and Credit Runs
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 This paper studies how short-sale constraints affect the informational efficiency of market prices and the link between prices and economic activity. I show that under short-sale constraints security prices contain less information. However, short-sale constraints increase the informativeness of prices to some agents who learn about the quality of an ...
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Household-level Credit Constraints in Urban Ethiopia [PDF]
Empirical evidence on determinants of credit constraints and the amount borrowed by urban household in Sub-Saharan Africa is almost non-existent. Using an extended direct approach by virtue of the unique data set we have (the Fourth Round Ethiopian Urban
Sebastian Torres +2 more
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