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Input, Output Technical Efficiencies and Total Factor Productivity of Cereal Production in Tunisia
Dhehibi, Boubaker; Bahri, Haithem; Annabi, Mohamed - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
. The findings revealed that significant factors related to TFP were age, education level and the share of wheat crops into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880312
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Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research
Fuglie, Keith O.; Heisey, Paul W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327152
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Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture
Fuglie, Keith O.; MacDonald, James C.; Ball, V. Eldon - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
productivity (TFP) for 1948 through 2004. American agriculture relies almost entirely on productivity growth to raise output. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327153
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Agglomeration Economies in Ukrainian Dairy Sector: a Marked Point Process Approach
Brummer, Bernhard; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
Even after more than 15 years of transition from plan to market, agriculture in Ukraine still faces many challenges in … productivity scores in Ukraine. Moreover, both the recently approved WTO accession, and the ongoing negotiations on a free trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693445
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Effect of infrastructure investments on total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian agriculture
Mendes, Sergio Magno; Teixeira, Erly Cardoso; Salvato, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Productivity (TFP) and competitiveness of Brazilian agriculture. The Solow growth model with panel data is used to estimate TFP. An … effects of infrastructure investments on TFP. The lack of such investments in Brazil caused the effects to be larger and with … lag periods smaller than in other countries. These investments affect TFP in the first years, and the study suggests that …
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Evaluating Agricultural Productivity’s Impact on Food Security
Rada, Nicholas E.; Rosen, Stacey; Beckman, Jayson - International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC - 2013
total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates. The present analysis evaluates the impact global agricultural TFP growth may … productivity plays in a country’s food security strategy. It also finds that TFP growth alleviates food insecurity primarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909819
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Measuring Total Factor Productivity Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: A Nonparametric Malmquist Indices Approach
Kondo, Katsunobu; Yamamoto, Yasutaka; Sasaki, Jun - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 36 (2008) 2
-1991. The results suggest that the pattern of TFP changes tends to be driven more by improvements in technical efficiency rather …
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Evaluating Agricultural Productivity’s Impact on Food Security
Rada, Nicholas E.; Rosen, Stacey; Beckman, Jayson - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates. The present analysis evaluates the impact global agricultural TFP growth may … productivity plays in a country’s food security strategy. It also finds that TFP growth alleviates food insecurity primarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916168
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Productivity and Economic Growth in Tunisian Agriculture: An Empirical Evidence
Dhehibi, Boubaker; Lachaal, Lassaad - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
.38%. In the last period, namely 1991-2000, TFP decreased. On average, productivity growth increased by less that 3.6% per year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060626
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Investigating the Sources of Agricultural Growth in Africa: Factor Accumulation, Total Factor Productivity, and Technology Absorption
Nkamleu, Guy Blaise - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
developments in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) measurement to search for fundamental determinants of growth in African agriculture …. Growth accounting computation highlights the fact that factor accumulation rather than TFP accounts for a large share of …
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