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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?
MARCHAND, Sébastien; GUO, Huanxiu - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2013
This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883826
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Resource use efficiency of US electricity generating plants during the SO2 trading regime: A distance function approach
Kumar, Surender; Gupta, Shreekant - National Institute of Public Finance and Policy - 2004
This paper measures resource use efficiency of electricity generating plants in the United States under the SO2 trading regime. Resource use efficiency is defined as the product of technical efficiency and environmental efficiency, where the latter is the ratio of good output (electricity) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342019
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Technical and Environmental efficiencies and Best Management Practices in Agriculture
Tamini, Lota D.; Larue, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
pollution. We found significant differences across BMPs regarding the direction and the magnitude of their effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533692
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Resource use efficiency of US electricity generating plants during the SO2 trading regime: A distance function approach.
Kumar, Surender; Gupta, Sreekant - 2004
This paper measures resource use efficiency of electricity generating plants in the United States under the SO2 trading regime. Resource use efficiency is defined as the product of technical efficiency and environmental efficiency, where the latter is the ratio of good output (electricity) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005748799
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Is participatory social learning a performance driver for Chinese smallholder farmers?
GUO, Huanxiu; Marchand, Sébastien - HAL - 2013
This paper aims to test the effect of smallholder farmers' participatory social learning on their gain of performance in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the social learning effect using a Spatial Autoregressive (SAR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821192
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International comparison of Environmental performance
Dubrocard, Anne; Prombo, Michel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
negative impact of pollution, the production of goods and services generates. This paper present programs that have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109725
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Pollution Generating Technologies and Environmental Efficiency
Färe, Rolf; Grosskopf, Shawna; Lundgren, Tommy; … - CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics - 2012
technology. Pollutants, or bads, are explicitly modeled by imposing technology properties of disposability and null-jointness. With data on firms from Swedish manufacturing, we investigate the potential to reduce emissions, and we take a closer look at the pulp and paper sector. Dividing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575506
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Estimation of environmental efficiencies of economies and shadow prices of pollutants in countries in transition
Mykhaylo, Salnykov; Valentin, Zelenyuk - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2005
pollution. Shadow prices of environmental pollution asses short run perspectives of increase in pollution when desirable output … currently global wealth and pollution are allocated inefficiently. We determine that different estimation techniques provide … forecasts on environmental effect of economic growth; to determine price range on international pollution permit markets and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121368
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Energy efficiency - the forgotten side of supply security
Jochen, Eberhard; Bradke, Harald - In: CESifo Forum 7 (2006) 2, pp. 28-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013087
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007
Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008597137