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Technical Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Its Determinants : An Exploratory Study at the District Level
Shanmugam, K. R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Given the importance of agriculture to the well being of a large percentage of Indias population, it becomes important … to study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this sector. This study attempts to estimate the technical …
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Technical Efficiency and Its Determinants in Gansu, West China
Sun, Sizhong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper analyses the technical efficiency problem in Gansu Province, West China, using firm-level cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363772
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Scenarios and Options for Productivity Growth in Philippine Agriculture An Application of the AMPLE
Briones, Roehlano M. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
making domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options … intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a … simulations suggest that : rapid productivity growth, even when combined with trade liberalization, is generally favorable for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363566
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Scenarios and Options for Productivity Growth in Philippine Agriculture An Application of the AMPLE
2010, February - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
making domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options … intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a promising option. However, productivity growth appears to be a … simulations suggest that : rapid productivity growth, even when combined with trade liberalization, is generally favorable for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363770
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Efficiency of Large Scale Manufacturing in Pakistan : A Production Frontier Approach
Mahmood, Tariq; Ghani, Ejaz; Din, Musleh-ud - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper examines the efficiency of the large scale manufacturing sector of Pakistan using the stochastic production frontier approach. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for two periods1995-96 and 2000-01for 101 industries at the 5-digit PSIC. The results show that there has been...
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Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Efficiency among Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines
Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990-2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered among maximum-likelihood based methods. The model is also...
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Sources of Output Growth in Indian Agriculture during the Post-Reform Period
Shanmugam, K.R.; Soundararajan, Vidhya - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Economic growth has failed to be sufficiently inclusive, particularly after the mid-nineties. Although agriculture is …, low productivity, lack of credit at reasonable rates, natural calamities and unavailability of proper extension services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365194
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Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models
Barrios, Erniel B.; Lavado, Rouselle F. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregressive component for a cross-section data, and a spatial-temporal component for a panel data. An estimation procedure that takes advantage of the...
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Health, Technical Efficiency And Agricultural Production In Indian Districts
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Shanmugam, K.R.; Ruger, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In this study, we attempt to quantify the effect of improved population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production. Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, we employ the random-coefficients technique to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function, computing overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365370
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Improving the Business Climate in NTT : The Case of Agriculture Trade in West Timor
Suharyo, Widjajanti Isdijoso; Sumarto, Sudarno; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to hastening development, increasing the employment field, and adding to local revenue. In...
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