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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Public Finances on the Balkan Peninsula – A Comparative Study of Twelve Countries

open access: yesFinance, Accounting and Business Analysis, 2021
Over the past three decadesthe Balkan countries have experienced a range of transformations, from a change in political and economic governance in some and difficult early years of transition to stabilisation and an accelerated ...
Presiana Nenkova   +2 more
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Feast and Famine: Financial Services for Rural Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper gives a brief description of the history and main institutional forms in the agricultural and rural financial services sector–commercial banks, the micro-finance industry, savings and credit cooperative societies, village banks, building ...
Argwings-Kodhek, Gem   +2 more
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The importance of strategic financial leadership in the UK public sector in a time of financial austerity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Given the severity of financial pressures on public authorities, this report is concerned with how finance managers in public services are coping with the demands placed on them and how they can demonstrate improved value by providing more effective ...
Harradine, D   +5 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies for pricing publicly provided health services [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors examine how governments finance and allocate public spending, with an eye to developing strategies for pricing publicly provided health services.
Gertler, Paul J., Hammer, Jeffrey S.
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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

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Climate Finance Within the Framework of Sustainable Economy

open access: yesMaliye ve Finans Yazıları
The aim of this paper is to review climate finance from the standpoint of sustainable economy. It covers international climate finance. As a method, descriptive analysis is employed by examining recent global figures.
Onur Özdemir, Fatih Kayhan
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Where do we stand on transport infrastructure deregulation and public-private partnership? [PDF]

open access: yes
The evolution of transport public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing and developed countries since the early 1990s seems to be following a similar path: private initiatives work for a while but after a shock to the sector takes place the public ...
Estache, Antonio, Serebrisky, Tomas
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