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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural
Household Model under credit market failure
Simtowe, Franklin and Zeller, Manfred
30 September 2006
Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45/
MPRA Paper No. 45, posted 01 Oct 2006 UTC
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