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Income Diversity in Rural Lithuania: Benefits, Barriers, and Incentives
Bezemer, Dirk; Rutkauskaite, Jurgita; Zemeckis, Romualdas - EconWPA - 2003
Economic hardship, agricultural policy reform and price developments have adversely affected incomes from agricultural production in Lithuania, and many farm households have accessed additional sources of income in the rural economy. In an analysis of recently collected survey data we find that...
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Poverty and Inequality in Rural Assam An Indicative Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision, Assam (India)
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
marketing facilities, connectivity and power supply, poor agricultural productivity, absence of any significant manufacturing …
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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)
Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005
people from Bangladesh. The economy is subsistence driven and productive resources are underutilized. Marginal productivity … of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …
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Enterprise, Growth and Inequality in the Rural Economy of Assam : A Study of Seven Villages in Udalguri Subdivision
Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005
Based on the primary data collected from 182 rural households from seven villages (five of which are inhabited by indigenous population and the rest two are inhabited by immigrants Muslim population from Bangladesh) this study aims at knowing if cultural variables make a difference to economic...
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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam
Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005
Globalization is a deliberate decision to open up a national economy to the forces of product, factor and money markets, followed by a sequence of requisite policies and actions. The Indian economy shed off its 40- year long license and quota regime and went in for globalization in the early...
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Technical Efficiency of Australian Wool Production: Point and Confidence Interval Estimates
Fraser, Iain; Horrace, William C. - EconWPA - 2002
A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported. The confidence intervals are constructed using the...
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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005
productivity change is of 11.66%. The overall averages provide evidence of productivity improvements of 173.29 over 1980-81(base ….20 while the contribution of capital deepening is 42.52% TO ACCOUNT for 173.20% overall PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE(not point to point … below for the growth accounting exercise which can totally account for point to point and overall productivity changes from …
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
1966-2000. We also decompose labor productivity growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the … the European countries it is the technical changes which has contributed to labour productivity changes between 1966 … primarily responsible for the existence of bimodal labour productivity distribution for countries included in our sample …
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2005
1966-2000. We also decompose labor productivity growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the … the European countries it is the technical changes which has contributed more to labour productivity changes between 1966 … be responsible for productivity accounting on point to point basis. For all the seven periods(point to point basis) we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556715
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Efficiency of Delhi International Airport Using Data Envelopment
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
We work out the efficiency index of the Delhi Airport using monthly data(March 2000 through July 2004) of international and total traffic of aircraft's, passengers & cargo movements . The study compares the Delhi Airport technical efficiency index with the efficiency indexes of some selected...
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