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Trade credit in Zimbabwean manufacturing

open access: yesWorld Development, 1997
Abstract Credit from suppliers is an important but often neglected source of finance for manufacturing firms. Zimbabwe is no exception. Unlike credit from financial institutions, trade credit does not rely on formal collateral but on trust and reputation. Contract enforcement is flexible.
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Trade credit and family control

open access: yesReview of Managerial Science
Abstract This paper analyses whether trade credit strategies depend on the family identity of the controlling shareholder. We use a sample of 4,022 private Spanish firms for the years 2004 and 2013 and examine family firm heterogeneity by analysing different thresholds of control, involvement in management and firm identification with the ...
Nieves Lidia Díaz-Díaz   +2 more
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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inventory Optimization for Non-Instantaneous Deteriorating Items Under Retailer’s Trade Credit and Partial Backlogging

open access: yesUMYU Scientifica Journal
In this research, an inventory model is developed for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with time-dependent demand under the retailer’s trade credit and partial backlogging.
Lois Iretide Oluwafemi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trade Credit and Bank Finance – Evidence from the Visegrad Group

open access: yesJournal of Competitiveness, 2018
This paper examines whether bank finance is a substitute or complementary to trade credit for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the region of the Visegrad Group – the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic.
Ashiqur Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

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