Mobile Phones and Mozambique Traders: Size, Composition and Distribution of Reduced Transaction Costs
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102423
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Keywords
Transaction costs; Transport costs; Mobile phones; Agricultural markets; Maize prices; Mozambique; sub-Sahara Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q11 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Prices
- Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
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