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Adoption and economic impact of water conservation and intensification methods on input demand, output supply, and net returns in lowland rice production of northern Ghana
Andrea Liane Linda Faltermeier - 2009
Rice is an important cereal to Ghana’s economy and agriculture. While there is huge potential for lowland rice cultivation in northern Ghana, erratic rainfall and low and degrading soil fertility remain the key constraints of production. The present study analyzes the adoption decision and the...
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The Adoption of Water Conservation and Intensification Technologies and Farm Income: A Propensity Score Analysis for Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana
Faltermeier, Liane; Abdulai, Awudu - 2008
This study uses cross-sectional data of 342 small-scale lowland rice farmers in Northern Region of Ghana to analyze the impact of the adoption decision of bund construction and seed dibbling on net returns, input demand and output supply. Matching was conducted based on Mahalanobis distance...
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Access to Microfinance: Does it Matter for Profit Efficiency Among Small Scale Rice Farmers in Bangladesh?
Sumelius, John; Islam, K.M. Zahidul; Sipilainen, Timo - 2011
This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms … in Bangladesh. An extended Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier profit function wasused to assess profit efficiency and … profit loss of rice farmers in Bangladesh in a survey data of 360 farmsthroughout the 2008-2009 growing seasons. Model …
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Influences on financial decision making among the rural poor in Bangladesh
Jackson, Laurel R. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010
This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories … the market (Chambers 1995; Chakravarti 2006; Duflo 2006). Bangladesh was chosen for this study because it is typical of … trials of microfinance offerings (Morduch 1998; Ferrari 2008; Hoque 2008). Financial dealings within this context are known …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481898
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The impact of microcredit on poverty and women's empowerment : a case study of Bangladesh
Rahman, Sayma - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2007
The microcredit program in Bangladesh is a unique innovation of credit delivery designed to enhance the income … major microcredit institutions in Bangladesh. Alongside the borrowers, data have also been collected from non-borrowers of …
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A linked emic approach to addressing research methodology and design issues for qualitative research about microfinance in Bangladesh
Jackson, Laurel; Fletcher, Richard; Global Marketing … - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2008
markets using a linked emic approach. Bangladesh is the initial focus for the study which will be replicated in other emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482155
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Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary
Csengodi, Sandor; Jungnickel, Rolf; Urban, Dieter - 2005
This study discriminates FDI technology spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, our model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local...
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2010
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442649
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2008
The increasing use of agricultural contracts and processor concentration raises concerns that processors may offer lower contract prices in absence of competition from other local contractors and spot markets. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and production contracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443270
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International research collaboration, research team performance, and scientific and; technological capabilities in colombia -a bottom-up perspective
Ordonez-Matamoros, Gonzalo - 2008
This dissertation examines the ways international research collaboration affects the ability of Colombian research teams to produce bibliographic outputs, and to contribute to local knowledge. Research hypotheses are tested using Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Regression models to account for...
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