professor and economist, Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University; and Stiles is an assistant specialist, University of Arkansas Extension Service. For more information, contact Martin at (662) 686-3264; e-mail [email protected]. This information sheet was published by the Office of Agricultural Communications, a unit of the Division of Agriculture, Forestry, and...

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We conduct a field experiment offering graduated microcredit clients the opportunity to finance business asset worth four times their previous borrowing limit. implement this using hire purchase contract; our control group is offered zero-interest loan. find large, significant and persistent effects from contracts: treated microenterprise owners run larger businesses enjoy higher profits; conse...

This work bridges the technical concepts underlying distributed computing and blockchain technologies with their profound socioeconomic and sociopolitical implications, particularly on academic research and the healthcare industry. Several examples from academia, industry, and healthcare are explored throughout this paper. The limiting factor in contemporary life sciences research is often fund...

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