The purpose of this paper is to address the determinants of trade credit in the Cameroonian context. Based on a sample of 85 Cameroonian companies observed in 2006, the econometric investigations highlight a genuine financial intermediation business close to productive activity. We used a general model incorporating both financial variables, transactional and sociocultural in order to estimate ...

the present article studies role of iran  export insurance fund on agricultural export sector by during 1385-1391.since activity in agricultural sector is one of the most dangerous economical activities, and the most important problem of planners and politicians of agricultural development reducing risk of economic activities and increasing security coefficient for producers of agricultural sec...

This article is based on the premise that poverty has its own culture. Social system and subsystems of this culture are built on exploitation. The rich are exploiting the poor by putting them into a debt-trap of money-lending system. This system exists everywhere in the world wherever poverty exists. The poor people need money for their survival and as a result of it they become the part of the...

nowadays, organizations are trying to maximize productivity by groups, but the results are not always completely satisfactory thereby causing some problems for organizations such as social loafing. social loafing reduces motivation and effort in team work compared to individual work. this study intends to achieve the necessary mechanisms to reduce social loafing, and reviews the effect of perce...

Introduction Thanks to recent advances in the field of distributed artificial intelligence, agent-based models (ABM) can now be used to run simulations of social phenomena based on their computerized representations, and to apply experimental methods in social sciences (Axelrod 1997, Gilbert and Troitzsch 1999, Jager 2000). In the field of renewable resource management and environmental science...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) open new modelling and analysis perspectives in ecological and social sciences. An original characteristic of the Companion Modelling (ComMod) approach adopted in this case study is the co-construction and use of a MAS model with and for local stakeholders such as farmers and local administrators. Alternating iteratively field and modelling activities, this approach fa...

There is an immediate need to step up the flow of credit to agricultural and other rural activities in India for improving rural productivity and economic welfare. In this context, we propose an ICT-based solution for improving the delivery of credit and other services to the rural areas through unbundling and outsourcing of the rural banking operations. The solution involves setting up of a co...