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Using household survey data from seven provinces in China, this study provides estimates of the price responsiveness of … simulate the impacts of structural change in China's livestock industry on feed grain trade. …
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rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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This research examines the effect of a government sponsored technology transfer program for small holder farms in Chile. The effect of family participation in the technology transfer program is evaluated with respect to a number of 'outcomes' including its effect on farm revenues, total family...
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It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...
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The dynamic relationships among trade, income and the environment for developed and developing countries are examined using a cointegration analysis. Results suggest that trade and income growth tend to increase environmental quality in developed countries, whereas they have detrimental effects...
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sector due to the globalization of markets and production. Two measures of the relative impacts of globalization on urban and …
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economic globalization has a significant positive effect on economic growth for all countries. However, China and India would …It has been controversial among economists about the impacts of globalization on growth, and the debate over the issue … production theory to investigate the effects of globalization on economic growth. The estimation results strongly suggest that …
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Research studies have differed over the importance of the relative emphasis of a customer versus competitor orientation in the development of a market orientation (Slater and Narver, 1994; Tajeddini, 2010). In this study, we assess whether the emphasis of one component over another of a market...
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-income countries—notably China, Brazil and India— are not only growing in relative importance as producers of agricultural innovations …
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