The Impact of Mobile Phone Coverage Expansion on Market Participation: Panel Data Evidence from Uganda

By M. Muto, T. Yamano. 2009

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Mobile Phones, Financial Inclusion, and Growth (2012, background): “On the other hand, Muto and Yamano (2009) find that in Uganda, mobile phone coverage expansion improves market participations of producers of more perishable goods.”
A review of evidence on mobile use by micro and small enterprises in developing countries (2010, background): “…mobile use by farmers are identifying factors which differentiate between subgroups, for example, between growers of perishable and non-perishable crops or by distance from local markets (Muto and Yamano, 2009), or according to different levels of infrastructural constraint (Gandhi et al., 2009).”
Information, efficiency, and welfare in agricultural markets (2010, background): “For example, Muto and Yamano (2009) find that cell phone coverage increases the production of bananas but not maize, suggesting a supply response due to the increased profitability of banana production when mobile phones are introduced (though it does not appear this was the result of substitution…”
Does the Use of Mobile Phones by Smallholder Maize Farmers Affect Productivity in Ghana? (2018, unknown): “…entrepreneurship (Afutu-Kotey, Gough, & Owusu, 2017; Mishra & Bisht, 2013; Ondiege, 2010), reducing agricultural supply and demand constraints (Aker & Fafchamps, 2010; Muto & Yamano, 2009) and narrowing rural– urban inequalities (Chan & Jia, 2011; Qiang, Kuek, Dymond, & Esselaar, 2011) inter alia.”
Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World (2016, background): “farmers and fisheries obtain market information (including on price trends) as well as knowledge about production techniques (Jensen, 2007; Ogutu et al., 2014; Muto and Yamano, 2009).”
Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa (2018, unknown): “…(v) elimination of demand–supply divergences, (vi) reduction of agricultural wastes from demand−/supply-side constraints (Aker and Fafchamps, 2010; Muto and Yamano, 2009); (vii) social change and development (Afutu-Kotey et al., 2017; Amankwah-Amoah, 2015, 2016; Amankwah-Amoah and Sarpong,…”
Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “However, access to a mobile phone may reduce the need for other information providers (Muto and Yamano, 2009).”
Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, unknown): “…the effect of SMS-based agricultural information on producer prices in India and find that access to information did not significantly increase the prices they received, whereas Muto and Yamano (2009) found that in Uganda mobile phone coverage had a positive effect on farm-gate prices for bananas.”
Facilitating Agricultural Technology Adoption Among the Poor: The Role of Service Delivery Through Mobile Phones (2012, unknown): “A study of banana producers in Uganda showed that households that did not own a mobile phone could still benefit from the availably of mobile phones in the community (Muto & Yamano 2009).”