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

Agribusiness, 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, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home Truths: Promises and Challenges in Linking Mortgages and Political Influence

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
What can “big data” tell us about the dynamics shaping the regulation of and activities in housing and mortgage markets? This paper describes a detailed database of the lobbying activities, campaign contributions, political connections, and mortgage ...
Deniz Igan
doaj   +1 more source

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

Agribusiness, 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, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, 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

Unstash the Cash! Corporate Governance Reform in Japan

Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2017
Japan’s high corporate savings might be holding back growth, by preventing a more effi cient use of resources. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been the main contributors to high corporate cash balances, but more recently larger companies have ...
Chie Aoyagi, Giovanni Ganelli
doaj   +1 more source

Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török, Gréta Maró, Zsófia Jámbor, Zalán Márk Maró, Barbara Tocco, Péter Balogh, Péter Czine   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2021 [PDF]

, 2021
Craig Sevy, Abebe Selassie, Gerard Rice, Rhoda Weeks-Brown, Jennifer Lester, Kalpana Kochhar, Edward Anderson, Ceda Ogada, Tobias Adrian, Gita Gopinath, Louis Ducharme, Andrew Tweedie, Bernard Lauwers, Vitor Gaspar, Chang Rhee, Alejandro Werner, Poul Thomsen, Alfred Kammer, Domenico Fanizza, Michael Massourakis, San Marino, Paul Hilbers, Anthony De Lannoy, Vladyslav Rashkovan, Hossein Hosseini, Chang Huh, Chris White, Zhongxia Jin, Zhengxin Zhang, Louise Levonian, Feargal O'brolchain, Alisara Mahasandana, Firman Mochtar, Willie Osana, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Sami Geadah, Ali Alhosani, Pablo Moreno, Alfonso Guerra, Jose Romero, Aleksei Mozhin, Lev Palei, Daniel Palotai, Christian Halil, Ibrahim Azal, Mika Ps, Shona Riach, David Ronicle, Elizabeth Shortino Vacant, Takuji Tanaka, Ken Chikada, Piotr Trabinski, Marcel Peter, Rdiger Von Kleist, Klaus Merk   +54 more
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EUROPEAN MONETARY FUND - BETWEEN ILLUSION AND FUTURE INSTRUMENT FOR EUROPEAN FINANCIAL STABILITY [PDF]

The finance crises that culminate with the Greece situation shows that majority of European countries are facing balance-of-payments difficulties and it is clear that actual mechanism couldn't face the situation. This paper wants to highlight some of the
Firtescu Bogdan
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
wiley   +1 more source

An overview of the new architecture for the international monetary system [PDF]

The new architecture of the international monetary-financial system is determined by the evolution of the economics, socials, culture and contemporary policies.
Popa, Catalin C.
core   +1 more source