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In developing countries, working capital
finance is crucial for doing business. It is
required to make payments in advance for the
services of inputs once a production process
is initiated. Suppliers of inputs to firms are
often financially constrained and cannot wait
for payments to be made after the production
cycle has been completed.*
If inputs uniformly precede outputs by a
period of
T
units of time, labour services and
capital stock that are introduced into the
production process at time
t
will account
for a finished output at time
t
+
T
. Workers
then have to be paid in advance ...

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