Methodological issues of an impact evaluation of development support in agriculture
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Keywords
Agriculture; Benin; External financing; MSMEs;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- Q14 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Finance
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2018-06-11 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2018-06-11 (Project, Program & Portfolio Management)
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