A New Approach to Monitoring Farmer Prices: Method and an Application to Malawi.
This paper proposes a new approach to monitoring farmer prices in low-income developing countries. This crowdsourcing approach involves broadcasting radio jingles inviting farmers to report the prices and locations at which they sold their crops to a toll-free call centre, with weekly prizes to ince...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 874 - 895 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2024
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