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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Enhancement of transparency and accuracy of credit scoring models through genetic fuzzy classifier [PDF]
Credit risk evaluation systems play an important role in the financial decision-making by enabling faster credit decisions, reducing the cost of credit analysis and diminishing possible risks.
Raja N. Ainon
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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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It is generally easier to predict defaults accurately if a large data set (including defaults) is available for estimating the prediction model. This puts not only small banks, which tend to have smaller data sets, at disadvantage.
Siana Halim, Yuliana Vina Humira
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ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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The development of scoring models for credit risk management and behaviour analysis of clients is quite important in the routine of commercial banks, financing companies, credit card operations, marketing units and large department stores.
Luis Fernando Landa Lecumberri +1 more
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Credit scoring in consumer credits
Bu çalışmanın amacı kredi skorlama teknikleri hakkında genel bir özet sunmak ve taşıt kredileri ile nakit ödemeli bireysel krediler için başvuru skorkart modelleri oluşturmaktır. Kredi skorlarının modellemesinde lojistik regresyon yöntemi kullanılmış olup, her bir kredi türü için ayrı veri kümeleri kullanılmıştır.
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Credit Scoring via PCALWM [PDF]
We have presented a principal component analysis linear-weighted model (PCALWM) for credit scoring in [5,6], this article is a further study on this model. We revised the application procedure in the credit scoring, and tested it by a larger real-life credit card dataset.
Jianping Li 0001 +2 more
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ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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This paper aims to show the importance of the use of financial metrics in decision-making of credit scoring models selection. In order to achieve such, we considered an automatic approval system approach and we carried out a performance analysis of the ...
Rodrigo Alves Silva +2 more
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