Impact of Access to Credit on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Smallholder Cassava Farmers in Nigeria
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-11-07 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2015-11-07 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-MFD-2015-11-07 (Microfinance)
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