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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

Credits and Bank Guarantee Letters in Entrepreneurship Development During Crisis

open access: yesAmfiteatru Economic, 2015
When the credit crisis started in 2008, a total of 67 entrepreneurs sought advice with the European Centre of Managerial Studies in Business Administration of the Spiru Haret University in Bucharest in order to find alternatives to finance classic loans ...
Dragoş Ilie
doaj  

Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Too many to fail? Inter-enterprise arrears in transition economies [PDF]

open access: yes
In advanced market economies, the use of trade credits is an important way of short-term financing and generally considered as being part of normal business practice.
Antje Hildebrandt
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Charity Tax Credits: Federal Policy and Three Leading States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Reviews the history of charity tax credit proposals, provides a summary of characteristics of the tax credit legislation, surveys three leading states that have implemented the credits, and considers key ...
Margy Waller
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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

Statistical approaches of the credit and the banking rating in the national economy [PDF]

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The appearance of the credit is closely related to the appearance of the commercial banks, the mobilization of the monetary disposals on the market and their efficient placement to the funds solicitors is being accomplished through credits.
ENACHI Stella   +2 more
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Consuming credit [PDF]

open access: yesConsumption Markets & Culture, 2013
This article provides an editorial introduction to the special issue of Consumption Markets & Culture devoted to the consolidated mass markets and cultures of contemporary consumer credit. It identifies a strange irony that arises from the extant social scientific literatures on consumption and retail finance: for all the analysis that they offer of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Optimal Tax Credits in the Context of the German System of Apprenticeship Training and Social Security [PDF]

open access: yes
There is an ongoing discussion in Germany about the implementation of tax credits in order to reintegrate low-skilled workers into the labor market.
Kai-Joseph Fleischhauer
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