Agricultural finance is indispensable for enhancing productive capacity in both small-scale and commercial farming. This study sought to establish the current status of agricultural financing by 12 registered operational banks Zimbabwe year 2019. Questionnaires interview guides were used collect data. SPSS NVivo data analysis. All participated with an average loan portfolio 30%. However, their ...

Abstract. Cash gaps in the financing of agricultural enterprises determine attraction borrowed funds, which contributes to growth production, allows restructuring technological base on an innovative basis and is key growing dynamics their own. Due this, management efficient use funds one most important functions formations management. At same time, subordination production law diminishing retur...

A pregnant woman who was a carrier for a balanced chromosome translocation [46,XX, t(1;6) (p31;q14)] and who had had six miscarriages, declined invasive testing but agreed to non-invasive prenatal diagnosis by analysis of fetal cells in maternal blood. Monoclonal antibody (Mab) against the zeta (z) and gamma (gamma) chains of embryonic and fetal haemoglobin were used to identify fetal nucleated...

The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with the continuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of labor for the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretation is advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as informal insurance which relies on the fact that bride wealth liabilities are contingent claims. ...

Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local governments, insurance companies, development economists as well as agricultural economists are discussing the cos...

We evaluate the short-term impact of financial support to smallholder farmers and training program to married women in two regions of Ethiopia. Using household-level panel data from the World Bank collected in 2010-2012, the combined Difference-In-Difference (DID) and matching methods are applied. The three main findings emerge from the analysis shows that first; the program seems to improve ru...