significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor … Arbeit misst technische Effizienz (TE) und total factor productivity (TFP) in China unter der Annahme individueller … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is …

efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both aggregated as overall index) on Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Given that the …In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The … agriculture is for many regions the fundamental source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the local agriculture …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

large number of low-efficiency, small-scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical … stochastic frontier production function, this paper estimates and compares the changes in technology and technical efficiency …

population, macroeconomic indicators, food consumption, factors of production, commodity production, trade, and efficiency of ….S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund …

null hypothesis of no relationship and points to the existence of an inverse association. We argue that the efficiency of … classic debate on farm size and productivity in the 21st century. …

"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for … household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick … efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers …

data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its … decomposition into technical change and efficiency change components. The analysis is undertaken using the data envelopment analysis … period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the …

This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative … efficiency, average firm size, capital intensity and the rate of new firm formation. Most strikingly, we find that in about 95 … percent of industries the distribution of technical efficiency is skewed to the right, not to the left as is commonly assumed. …