In order to curb post-harvest losses of horticultural produce and attract private investment in the horticulture industry, the National Horticulture Board (NHB) had initiated soft loan schemes (SLSs) in 1993-94. Under these schemes, soft loan assistance with a maximum limit of Rs. 1.00 crore is...

The study showed lower production and marketed surplus during summer season followed by rainy and winter seasons. However, the percentage marketed surplus was the highest in summer season followed by winter and rainy seasons. The higher percentage of marketed surplus in summer season was due to...

Geert Hofstede presented statistical evidence purporting to identify intercultural co-operation and its importance for survival in his scholarship work "cultures and organizations". This article presents a study, which describes how differences in national culture can affect or influence the...

The paper studies the multidimensional aspects of poverty and living conditions in Ghana. The aim is to fill the vacuum that has been left by traditional uni-dimensional measures of deprivation based on poverty lines, exclusively estimated on the basis of monetary variables such as income or...

A nation's economy is managed in large part through fiscal policy. It is a central bank's secondary tool for influencing a country's money supply after monetary policy. Unfortunately, not everyone is affected equally by any fiscal policy. One of the Philippines' most pressing development...

This paper contains the meaning a of Activity-Based-Costing and whether the application of this method can improve company performance and how this method affect the company. In the first part of this paper, it describes Activity-Based-Costing method and comparison between this method and...

Scholar-level and journal-level citations, and metrics built thereupon, have transformed how many colleges and universities assess the scholarly output of their faculty. Journal impact factors and scholar-level h-indices, among many other metrics, now appear in promotion, renewal, and tenure...

This paper develops a replicable and scalable method for analyzing tone in economics seminars to study the relationship between speaker gender, age, and tone in both static and dynamic settings. We train a deep convolutional neural network on public audio data from the computer science...

This paper examines business performance and crisis-mitigation strategies among micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We utilise a new primary dataset based on administrative records, survey data, and follow-up interviews with merchants...