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Impact of Information and Communication Technology-based Market Information Services on Smallholder Farm Input Use and Productivity: The Case of Kenya

Ogutu, Sylvester O.; Okello, Julius J.; Otieno, David J. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation has been stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty … ICT-based market information service (MIS) project on farm input use and productivity in Kenya. It finds strong empirical …

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Competitiveness from Desideratum to the Strategic Objective of The Romanian Leadership

Stefan, Daniel Larentiu; Craciuneanu, Viorel - In: Knowledge Horizons - Economics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 85-89

the Romanian leadership is the one which can help to identify a new model of economic growth based on the emphasised areas' development, areas which have shown their potential and competitiveness. Such a growth model would be based on the orientation of SMEs in Romania towards the foreign...

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Firm Efficiency and Input Market Integration: Trade versus FDI

Imbruno, Michele - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and … - 2015

This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...

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Exports, R&D and Productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with enterprise data from France, Italy and Spain

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 716-719

-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …

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