کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
989294 935423 2009 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The Impact of Mobile Phone Coverage Expansion on Market Participation: Panel Data Evidence from Uganda
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The Impact of Mobile Phone Coverage Expansion on Market Participation: Panel Data Evidence from Uganda
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryAn increased information flow due to mobile phone network expansions is expected to reduce marketing costs of agricultural commodities. We investigate this using panel data of 856 Ugandan households in 94 communities, where the number of communities covered by mobile phone networks increased from 41 to 87 between surveys in 2003 and 2005, respectively. After the expansion of coverage, we find increased sales of banana in remote communities but not of maize. The mobile phone coverage expansion seems to induce the market participation of farmers in remote areas who produce perishable crops.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 1887–1896
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