Rostow, Walt W. (author / Special Assistant, U.S. President)
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Article
Publication Date:
1966
Published:
International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12330
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 250-254 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
10 pages., he impact of mobile money services in sub-Saharan Africa have been largely recognised. However, empirical studies are principally lacking on the factors influencing the decision to own a mobile phone (first hurdle), register with mobile money (second hurdle) and the intensity of use of mobile money services (third hurdle). This study examined the determinants of the mobile phone ownership, drivers of registration (participation) of mobile money services, and the intensity of use of mobile money services in rural Ghana by employing the triple hurdle approach. The first and second hurdle were analysed using the logit model while quasi-poisson regression was used to analyse the third hurdle. The analysis from the cross-sectional data showed that the decision to own a mobile phone was driven by household size, marital status, the farm size, access to electricity, income status and the type of occupation engaged, whereas the decision to register with mobile money was influenced by the age, educational status, marital status, household size, farm size and the type of occupation engaged in by the household head. The intensity of usage of mobile money services was influenced by the age of the household head, higher educational level, marital status of the household head, household and farm size as well as the distance of the household heads from the mobile money agent which directly influences the intensity of use of mobile money services by household heads. The study recommends that strategies that promote access to electricity and occupation in the formal sector or both farming and trading in the rural communities should be promoted. Furthermore, policy attention should focus on location, farmers and farm characteristics.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 48 Document Number: B05863
Notes:
Chapter in Rodefeld, R.D., Jan Flora, Donald Voth, Isao fujimoto and Jim Converse, Change in rural America: causes, consequences, and alternatives. C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri, pp 273-281.
Christiansen, M.K. (author), Donohue, George A. (author), Fienup, D.F. (author), Jensen, H.R. (author), Routhe, H.G. (author), and University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota}University of Minnesota
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1963
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 46 Document Number: B05646
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P. Tichenor. Special Report No. 10. Agricultural Extension service, University of Minnesota. 6 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07427
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INTERPAKS, Mimeographed, 1981. Paper prepared for the Development Studies Association Annual Conference, September 10-12, 1981. 9 p., Briefly examines the relation between agricultural extension innovation and social change. Discusses the importance of extension organizations listening to their clients more carefully. Notes the difficulty and complexity of identifying induced change or 'development'. Illustrates the effect social change may have on extension-related development work. Cases include sale of cocoa by New Guinea growers involving kinship systems and changing concept of inheritance and the effect of access to new irrigation systems on social change in two south Indian villages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 122 Document Number: C15644
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13 p., Talk given on August 1, 1980, at Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia, to the annual meeting of the Central Council, Victorian Farmers & Graziers' Association
