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Envelopment Analysis analysiert und die Änderungen in der totalen Faktorproduktivität mit Hilfe des Malmquist Productivity Change …This paper analyzes efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) change of large agricultural enterprises during … the productivity change is measured by the Malmquist Productivity Change Index in the period between 1990 and 1999. On …
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The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate … may be an advantage.Martin and Mitra examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and … rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural productivity is invariably low. But Martin and Mitra find that the …
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general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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productivity. I analyze oil spillages, which constitute the major ecological disaster in Nigeria, leading to large environmental … spills experiment a relative reduction in total factor productivity of around 2.73\%. I also examine alternative mechanisms … labour income in urban areas close to oil spills, that could also be explained by a decrease in the labour productivity …
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A decomposition of aggregate labor productivity based on internationally comparable data from FAO and Penn World Tables … reveals that high labor shares and low productivity in agriculture are mainly responsible for poor countries<92> current … factor productivity (TFP) and barriers to using modern intermediate inputs in agricultural production can largely account for …
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This paper studies the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights (IPRs) after the signing of the TRIPS on agricultural trade and bilateral trade links, for the period 1995-2011. It uses data of agricultural exports and an index of intellectual property (IP) protection that considers...
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, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …
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We estimate the impact of access to information and communication technology on agricultural profitability and child labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit the timing of an intervention that provided at least one public (satellite) payphone to 6,296 villages that did not...
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Dieses Discussion Paper beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse der technischen und Skaleneffizienz russischer Agrarunternehmen im Transformationsprozess. Insbesondere wird hierbei der Einfluss der Faktoren Betriebsgröße, Rechtsform und Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die...
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impact of climate variability on agricultural productivity. Our results suggest that lower precipitation, heat waves and … drought are the main causes of decreasing agricultural productivity in the region. -- agricultural productivity ; climate … change ; MENA region ; Malmquist productivity …
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