THE ABC PROGRAM
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research draws on data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s rural credit matrix, the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), and questionnaires administered in the municipality of Valença-RJ. All data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The sample consisted of 40 farmers, 4 technical extension agents, and 11 employees of financial institutions that operate with rural credit in the municipality. Our findings indicate that the resources allocated to the ABC Program represent less than 15% of the government's initial rural credit budget. Despite the limited funding, some of the credit lines available remain underutilized. The most accessed line of credit is for the restoration of degraded pastureland, particularly in the Brazilian Midwest. Lastly, the case study reveals that even 13 years since the program's inception, the ABC credit lines remain largely unknown to producers, extension agents, and bank employees in Valença. This lack of awareness hinders the program’s promotion and likely contributes to its low uptake among rural producers.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it