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This study aims at assessing the environmental performance the U.S. agriculture with respect to GHG emissions across … technical efficiency accounting for undesirable outputs reveals that regulations of agriculture GHG emission would be effective … efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 …
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Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin (1997) concludes that benefits of microeconomic reforms have been modest. A key area of disagreement relates to the claim that increased competition leads to increases in...
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This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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and analyzing statistical data on productivity trends and technological change in the energy-intensive manufacturing … analysis to the agriculture and electric power sectors in India, South Korea, and two other developing countries. They will … also examine the impact of alternative model specifications on estimates of productivity growth and technological change …
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agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there … of this study is to measure and compare the levels and trends in agricultural productivity in transition countries with … those of the European Union (EU) countries making use of the most recent data available from the Food and Agriculture …
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Transgenic crops are relatively new technologies being adopted rapidly in the United States and in a few other countries. The economic impacts of these technologies have, thus far, been estimated in a piecemeal fashion. The purpose of this study was to collect and characterize the economic...
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This paper briefly presents the results of a total factor productivity (TFP) study of South African commercial … agriculture, for 1947-1997, and illustrates some potential pitfalls in rate of return to research (ROR) calculations. The lag …
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We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we … increases in extension-schooling without commensurate improvements in research capacity did not improve productivity performance. …
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