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Mobile Phones and Farmers’ Marketing Decisions in Ethiopia
Getaw Tadesse,Godfrey Bahiigwa +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examined the impact of mobile phones on farmers' marketing decisions (spatial arbitrage, buyer's choice, frequency of selling, and size of transaction) and prices they received based on household and village level information collected from rural Ethiopia.Abstract:
This paper examines the impact of mobile phones on farmers’ marketing decisions (spatial arbitrage, buyer’s choice, frequency of selling, and size of transaction) and prices they receive based on household and village level information collected from rural Ethiopia. It explains the reason for the weak impact of mobile phones observed in this study as well as in previous studies in Africa. We argue that even though many farmers participate in information searching, the number of farmers who use mobile phones for information searching is very small. The reason for such low use of mobile phones for information searching seems lack of quality information that can be accessed through mobile phones.read more
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Mobile and More Productive? Firm-Level Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Mobile Internet Use
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity and find that mobile internet use does cause higher labour productivity in German firms, compared to the early stages of diffusion within firms.
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Does Internet use promote the adoption of agricultural technology? Evidence from 1 449 farm households in 14 Chinese provinces
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the impact of Internet use on the adoption of agricultural production technology by smallholder farmers based on a survey of 1 449 smallholders across 14 provinces in China.
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Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa
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