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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

Aid, debt burden and goverment fiscal behaviour: A new model applied to Côte d'Ivoire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country.
McGillivray, Mark, Ouattara, Banzoumana
core  

Debt problems of developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Much concern has been expressed in recent years over the mounting debt burden of developing countries. The increasing amounts of loans and their hardening terms have in many cases led to external debt servicing problems of alarming magnitudes.
Garg, Ramesh C.
core   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Appropriate and Inappropriate Actions for Efficient Management of Territorial Self-Government Debt

open access: yesProblemy Zarządzania, 2017
The article points out some operations of territorial self-government entities in Poland which are not appropriate for efficient local debt management.
Maria Jastrzębska
doaj   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI in chemical engineering: From promise to practice

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) in chemical engineering has moved from promise to practice: physics‐aware (gray‐box) models are gaining traction, reinforcement learning complements model predictive control (MPC), and generative AI powers documentation, digitization, and safety workflows.
Jia Wei Chew   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Latin America Debt Market: Sources of Risks

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2020
Historically uncontrollably growing debt obligations of Latin American countries were the source of the risk of global crisis. Given the strategic importance of a number of Latin American countries as suppliers of key commodities to the global market ...
A. V. Kuznetsov, S. A. Morozov
doaj   +1 more source

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RUSSIAN PUBLIC DEBT MANAGEMENT

open access: yesВестник университета, 2021
The article considers the approaches to public debt management in Russia, describes the time requirements for the use of various tools. The paper evaluates the dynamics of changes in public debt and its transformation, which consists in the transition ...
O. A. Revzon
doaj   +1 more source

Giving and receiving help in three contexts as predictors of alcohol outcomes in a longitudinal study of sober living house residents

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although peer support is central to the social model approach emphasized in sober living houses (SLHs), no longitudinal studies have examined helping among SLH residents. This longitudinal study examined benefits of helping in three contexts among SLH residents. Data were from 205 participants entering 28 SLHs across 2021–2023. Interviews were
Sarah E. Zemore   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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