This paper sets up a model to account for differences in total factor productivity due to differences in enforcement of … lower in economies with bad enforcement. For this reason, the high-productivity firms in the intermediate goods sector have … no incentive to grow and the low-productivity firms in the final goods sector, benefiting from low intermediate goods …

protection policies and trade relations with the EU and productivity dynamics and their determinants. Secondly, it presents four … scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …

institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model … democratic institutions, have positively contributed to the (labour) productivity growth in former communist countries …' agriculture. …

This study is an empirical investigation of how individual risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of … from 2014 and 2015, the results indicate lower productivity on female-owned plots. Controlling for various socio …-economic factors, the results show that as the female farmers' increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned plots goes down …

Productivity growth is a key determinant of rising living standards. The agricultural sector has been an important … contributor to the overall growth of productivity in New Zealand. The average rate of multifactor productivity growth in … agriculture from 1926-27 to 2000-01 was 1.8%. We find evidence that this rate has been increasing especially since the reforms of …

Women are under-acknowledged participants in Africa's agriculture and food sector, supplying a large share of the … lower productivity jobs and earning less than men. Their underrepresentation persists all along agricultural value chains …. These inequalities translate into lower welfare outcomes for women in addition to inefficient productivity gaps with …

misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … productivity over time. Our analysis also reveals important differences between the north and south regions. …

productivity and the production of foodstuffs. The second part offers an analysis on the extent to which, and the way that, the … productivity, which could reflect a wider socioeconomic and institutional environment, i.e. beyond the agricultural sector. The … development of the agricultural sector. We refer to the need to think about the future of agriculture in Mozambique from a long …

have affected progress in the agriculture sector suggests the need for concerted reorientation in existing strategies … of agriculture in Mozambique within a long-term perspective, focusing on the adoption and stabilization of an … institutional framework aimed at increasing agricultural productivity and preserving the environment. …