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Bitcoin is a digital cryptocurrency that has attracted substantial interest in recent years from the general people, profit seekers, risk takers, academic practitioners and last but not the least, from economists. Most recently, particularly, after 2015, it has succeeded to gain even more...
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In this research paper we investigated the determinants likely to influence the adoption of mobile banking services …, with a special focus on under banked/unbanked low-income population of Pakistan. The adoption of mobile banking services …
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The empowerment of the poor through cell phones is this paper’s central theme. There already exist a number of cases in the world where such empowerment has already occurred in the financial sector through the usage of cell phones: the cases provided throughout the paper are Kenya, the...
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This paper examines joint adoption of safer irrigation technologies under uncertainty. The new irrigation technologies …. The main hypothesis tested is that profit and health-related uncertainties influence adoption of safer irrigation … theoretically and empirically, these possible technology adoption uncertainties, and other relevant factors which influence farmers …
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The MAPs provide opportunities for developing a variety of safe and cost effective, prophylactic, and curative medicines for a number of maladies. It is estimated that the primary health care of over 80 per cent of the world’s population still depends on plant based traditional medicines (WHO,...
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this research is to study determinants guiding the adoption of new varieties of maize following the example of “Cameroon … varieties. The age, area, gender and risk seem to have no effect on the adoption of such varieties. …
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This paper examines technology adoption and integrated pest management strategies employed by UK farmers, using both … determinants of technology adoption in relation to pest management. Our preferred model specification is nonparametric which makes …
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conceptualizes a model to capture these effects. The results suggest that adoption of broadband service is playing a mediatory role …
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A substantial amount of the literature has reported on the impact of access to credit on technology adoption, and many … studies find that credit has a positive impact on adoption. However, most existing studies have failed to explicitly measure …. They overlooked the fact that credit access can be a panacea for non-adoption only if it is targeted at households that …
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This study investigates the linkage between attitudes towards risk and adoption. We empirically examine the relative … fertilizer-use and the adoption of hybrid maize. Results show that Malawian farmers exhibit absolute Arrow-Pratt risk aversion … associated with low intensity of hybrid maize adoption and that other than the safety net programs, human and financial capital …
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