Transaction Costs, Information Technologies, and the Choice of Marketplace among Farmers in Northern Ghana.
Using a transactions costs framework, we examine the impact of information and communication technologies (mobile phones and radios) use on market participation in developing country agricultural markets using a novel transaction-level data set of Ghanaian farmers. Our analysis of the choice of mark...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 50; no. 9; pp. 1226 - 1240 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2014
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