The financing of agricultural producers is one of the most acute problems along the entire scope of economic reforms in Kazakhstan. The issue is: What kind of financial sources could maintain the development of agricultural production? Internal sources such as profit, depreciation capital, and...

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the patronage refunds decision in the Farm Credit System (FCS) lending associations, and simulate the capital structure change of a representative association dynamically. Patronage refunds distribution is a unique feature of financial...

The recent expansion of the sugar and ethanol industries has raised some concerns regarding a number of issues. One major concernis with the quality of employment, the level of remuneration, the presence of child labor, the low qualification of the workers,informality and the high presence of...

The national market for FLV (fruits, legumes and vegetables) has grown significantly in recent years. However, due to the high perishability of these products, their quality is subject to appropriate processes of standardization, selection, classification, packaging and transportation to avoid...

This paper uses a fundamental Q model of investment to consider the role playedby financing frictions in agricultural investment decisions, controlling econometrically forcensoring, heterogeneity and errors-in-variables. Our findings suggest that farmer's investment decisions are not driven by...

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During the transition of the Vietnamese economy, adaptation of the financialsystem was one of the most challenging reforms. A major task of this reformwas to expand the financial system?s outreach to the newly emerging privatesector and household economies, especially in rural areas. Therefore,...

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A k?lf?ldi t?ke ?rdekl?d?se a magyar mez?gazdas?g ir?nt 87,2 milli?rd forint saj?tt?ke-r?sszel 2002-ben ?rte el a cs?csot a KSH adatai szerint. Forint?rfolya-mon sz?molva 1993 ?s 2001 k?z?tt 6,3-szeres?re n?tt a jegyzett t?k?ben a k?lf?l-di t?ke ?sszege, eur?ban sz?molva 2,6-szeres volt a...

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