This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on the performance of rice … models. After effectively correcting for selectivity bias, the mean profit efficiency of the microfinance borrowers and non …

on outreach and sustainability of microfinance institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent …

This paper investigates borrowing decisions of rural households from a microfinance in Tigray, Ethiopia using household …-liability lending explicitly into account: risk of partner failure and the risk of losing future access to credit. Empirical results … deter participation and easing stringent punishments might help poor households’ access to credit. …

practices in northern Ghana, but adoption is believed to be low. This study thus examines the determinants of conservation … northern Ghana. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate probit models were used to analyse the decision to adopt six …

households, this study, in contrast, analyses the innovation-generating behaviour among rural farmers in northern Ghana. Inspired …

This short paper investigates the cointegration and causality link between energy consumption and agricultural, non …

found to have slowly cointegrated with German prices, but the cointegration relationship of the two counties is only found …

patterns. Secondly, the interdependence across prices is specified and estimated adopting appropriate cointegration techniques. …

determining the relationship among markets remains unclear. The cointegration framework, OLS and principal component regressions … are applied in order to investigate the influence of geographical distance on the cointegration relationship between … relation between distance and the elasticity of cointegration. Moreover, the region in which the market is located and a better …