The main objective of this research paper and its corresponding analysis is to explore and discuss the contribution of the banana export sector to the growth of the Cameroon economy. The paper presents and utilizes data for the period 2002-2012, collected from the Food and Agricultural...

The role of farmers as extensionists is as important as their much-championed role of experimenter; these are, in fact, complementary to a great extent. To illustrate the presumption a case study was conducted at Ghoragachha village of Nadia district, West Bengal. The case of banana cultivation...

Banana skins are a “slippery” metaphor for risk and are yearly applied to microfinance with a worldwide survey with sub-sections and geographical segmentations, including also Sub-Saharan Africa. Credit risk is still considered the biggest threat, both globally and in Africa, as a...

The international transfer pricing norm is the "arm"s length " standard where prices are set as if related parties were transacting as unrelated parties. The modem theory of the firm, however, argues that the types of transactions that take place within firms differ significantly from market...

The decade long trans-Atlantic banana dispute was not a traditional trade conflict stemming from antagonistic producers' interests. Instead, this article argues that the banana dispute is one of the most complex illustrations of the legal and political difficulties created by the nesting and...

When stockouts restrict consumers' freedoms, two independent responses can occur: product desirability, or a reactance-based increase in the desire for the unavailable option, and source negativity, or general frustration with the source of the restriction. In four studies, we provide a novel...