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Digital Technology Adoption and Potential in Southeast Asian Agriculture
While the rural agriculture sector has traditionally been seen as backward relative to the urban industrial and services sectors, it is a potential “low-hanging fruit” ripe for a much-needed digital transformation for agricultural development. ASEAN has seen a U-turn in progress in...Volume 20 Issue No. 2 (December 2023) -
Commercialization and Mission Drift in Microfinance: Implications for Rural India
The emergence of microfinance has been justified as a measure to occupy the empty space that was created with the retreat of formal banking as part of structural and neoliberal reforms for rural India in post-1990s. Worldwide, although the microfinance institution (MFI) has been flouted to provide...Volume 17 Issue No. 1 (June 2020)