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Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of direct government payments on agricultural production and exports in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – Alternative regression models are estimated using the time‐series data of 1960 to 2010 from ERS/USDA to address the...
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Abstract In dem Beitrag soll auf die Veränderungen und Herausforderungen eines sich wandelnden Arbeitsmarktes eingegangen werden. Zunächst wird der Blick auf Beschäftigungsformen gerichtet, die nicht dem klassischen Normalarbeitsverhältnis entsprechen. Im Anschluss wird, nach einer...
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activities is especially high. Simultaneously, the productivity of transaction as well as transformation activities has increased … steadily. A significant difference between the growth rates in productivity was not found. Hence there is no evidence that the …
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productivity of the firms. This study also examines how this effect differs among Egyptian firms in the agriculture, manufacturing … effective for agriculture than manufacturing and service firms; external knowledge plays a vital role in increasing productivity … external knowledge on the firm productivity are sector-specific; knowledge-workers and relational knowledge are two times more …
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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 …
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agriculture, and examine the potential impacts of FDI in African agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – The dynamic Global … Trade Analysis Project model (GDyn) is used to analyse the potential impacts of improvements in land productivity and FDI in … Africa. Findings – The results illustrate that combined efforts to improve land productivity and growth in FDI could …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections of agricultural productivity, access to credit and … sources and agricultural productivity. Thus access to formal and informal credit increases farm household agricultural … productivity by about 0.10 ( p =0.05) and 0.45 ( p < 0.01), respectively. The quadratic terms of formal and informal credit as well …
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Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how the unfolding diet transformation in East and Southern Africa is likely to influence the evolution of employment within its agrifood system (AFS) and between that system and the rest of the economy. To briefly consider implications for...
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