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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancement of transparency and accuracy of credit scoring models through genetic fuzzy classifier [PDF]

open access: yesMaejo International Journal of Science and Technology, 2010
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
doaj  

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Credit Scoring Modeling

open access: yesJurnal Teknik Industri, 2014
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
doaj  

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Uma metodologia para o gerenciamento de modelos de escoragem em operações de crédito de varejo no Brasil

open access: yesEconomia Aplicada, 2003
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
doaj  

Credit scoring in consumer credits

open access: yes, 2021
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.
openaire   +1 more source

Credit Scoring via PCALWM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
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
openaire   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Financial performance as a decision criterion of credit scoring models selection [doi: 10.21529/RECADM.2017004]

open access: yesRevista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

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