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Public Controversies About the Meanings of Money
Cuadernos de Antropología Social, 2015 This article reflects on the social and moral meanings of money transferred through social policies. Over the past decade a set of social policies that transfer cash to the poorest households emerged. These interventions activated debates among different
Martín Hornes
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Risks of Bitcoin Virtual Currency
Communications, 2015 Bitcoin, digital money got into focus after the Mt Gox crash. It uses P2P interaction where an owner transfers the electronic coin to the next owner signing and adding a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner.
Zoran Cekerevac +3 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the impact of soil erosion on agricultural land values in the United States (US) Midwest. Based on a novel county‐level panel data set with information on soil erosion levels and agricultural land values covering five census years (1997, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017), we separately investigate the direct effect of two types ...
Le Chen +3 more
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Mobile money, smallholder farmers, and household welfare in Kenya.
PLoS ONE, 2014 The use of mobile phones has increased rapidly in many developing countries, including in rural areas. Besides reducing the costs of communication and improving access to information, mobile phones are an enabling technology for other innovations.
Enoch M Kikulwe +2 more
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Anti Money Laundering in Bitcoin Network Using Chaotic Time Series and Graph Convolution Network [PDF]
Journal of Universal Computer ScienceMoney laundering seriously threatens economic stability by legitimizing illegal gains. Despite the transparency and security advantages offered by the blockchain technology, anonymity can create a platform for concealing illegal activities.
Emine Cengiz, Murat Gök
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich +4 more
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Textos & Contextos (Porto Alegre), 2011 This paper analyzes the definitions of child poverty with respect to both the current thinking about the term, and its relationship to Conditional Cash Transfers.
Llobet, Valeria, Minujin, Alberto
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva +2 more
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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff +2 more
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MONEY LAUNDERING AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013 The present article is dedicated to the problem being side-effect and directly related to the anti-money laundering fight: the infringement of the constitutional rights.
A. V. Shashkova
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