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This paper provides new estimates of small holder farmers' technical efficiency and its principal determinants using a rural Tigray micro finance survey data collected in 2009. Both descriptive and econometric methods are used. The hypotheses tests confirm the adequacy of Cobb-Douglas over...
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For diversification in agriculture, one of the areas that have emerged as a fast growing sector recently in West Bengal …
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inefficiency effects. Sufficient evidence of positive relationship between wheat productivity and higher and balanced use of … fertiliser nutrients was present. The productivity showed an inverse relationship with the proportionate farm area allocated to …
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productivity index and the Fisher index. The two indices are used to measure changes in technology, profitability, efficiency, and … productivity in response to the adoption of 2 selected best management practices (BMPs) whose objective is to reduce water … profitability, efficiency and productivity. …
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’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect … productivity as industrial sector, or firms’ financial conditions. We use a micro panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms …
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championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …
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general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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population density and limited off-farm employment opportunities, enhancing agriculture productivity is key for sustainable … without significant growth in agriculture it will be virtually impossible to address poverty reduction. Given the high … largely determined by total factor productivity (TFP), which in turn is affected by macroeconomic policies and stability, and …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the … regression in productivity in the 1970s, and made some progress during the 1980s and 1990s. The study also highlights the fact …
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