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Does warehouse receipt financing benefit Ghanaian smallholders? by Miranda, Mario, Mulangu, Francis, Kemeze, Francis H., Kolavalli, Shashidhara

“…In practice, however, warehouse receipt financing has generally failed to deliver the benefits to smallholders hoped for by development economists and practitioners. In Ghana, and more generally throughout Africa, warehouse receipt financing is currently used almost exclusively by large traders, processors, and exporters. …”
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Issues of infrastructural development: a synthesis of the literature by Ahmed, Raisuddin, Donovan, Cynthia

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Is small still beautiful? a comparative study of rice farm size and productivity in China and India by Wang, Jianying, Chen, Kevin Z., Das Gupta, Sunipa, Huang, Zuhui

“…– The farm size-productivity relationship has long been the subject of debate among development economists. Few studies address this issue for China, and those that do only with outdated data sets poorly representing the current situation after the past decade of rapid change, which includes the rapid development of land rental markets, village labor out-migration and use of farm machines. …”
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