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Socio-Economic Determinants of Access to Institutional Credit among Marginal and Small Farmers in Cachar District of Assam: An Econometric Analysis

Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
Inadequate access to formal agricultural credit constrains rural financial obligations and reduces productivity among India's small and marginal farmers.
Dr. Subhash Sinha, Prof. Vanlalchhawna, Prof. Lalhriatpuii   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Who Owns the Output? Authorship, Creative Labour, and Innovation Capability in Human‐AI Collaboration

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generative AI is radically transforming how creative authorship is understood, attributed, and governed across the world’s cultural and creative industries. As AI systems increasingly produce outputs that organisations and audiences recognise as creative, foundational assumptions about who authors creative work, who receives credit for it, and
Ololade A. Shonubi
wiley   +1 more source

Do Cashless Transactions and Credit Distribution Affect Inflation in Indonesia?

Ecoplan
The relationship between credit and non-cash transactions includes various mechanisms that affect the money supply, ultimately increasing inflation. One way to control inflation is to maintain the circulation of money.
Muhammad Firmansyah, Arfida Boedirochminarni, Wahyu Hidayat Riyanto, Arini Roro Anggun Tsalasa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Playing in the Dark: Invisible Chess as a Laboratory for Strategic AI

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
This paper shows that strategic AI evaluated on perfect‐information benchmarks can be brittle in real adversarial settings. By using invisible chess as a benchmark for hidden state and deception, it argues for stricter testing, human oversight, and more cautious governance of high‐stakes AI systems.
Paolo Ciancarini
wiley   +1 more source

Credit mechanism in financial mediation

Economic Analysis
Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of the strategy of the operation of the credit mechanism, the analysis of the current state and prospects for its development, and the directions for improving the modern strategy of creating a credit mechanism by financial intermediaries in ...
openaire   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

PICS bag adoption intensity in southern Tanzania: synergy of training and credit

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Postharvest losses in staple crops such as maize continue to undermine food security and farmers’ incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the availability of safe and effective storage innovations like hermetic bags.
Happiness Zacharia, Shiferaw Feleke, Mussa Nyaa, Dieudonne Baributsa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva, Angel Perni, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source