Incentives Embedded in Institutions: The Case of Share Contracts in Ghanaian Cocoa Production
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Keywords
Cacao; Rural societies; Farm management; Ghana; カカオ; 農村; 農業経営; ガーナ;All these keywords.
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- Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
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