Mobile phone coverage and producer markets: Evidence fromwest Africa

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 262-292

  Aker, Jenny C ^a   Fafchamps, Marcel ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; COMMODITY PRICE; CROP; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION;

NIGER [WEST AFRICA];

EID: 84943389091     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhu006     Document Type: Article

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