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activity, the farms’ market position, shares, etc. A systematic approach for defining competitiveness and formulating its … the competitiveness of Bulgarian farms of different juridical types, economic sizes, product specialization, and … ecological and geographical locations. For assessing the level of competitiveness of farms, a system of 4 pillars (Economic …
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mechanization on use of household and hired labor. Finally, agricultural mechanization significantly raises the productivity of …
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A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average … farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the … non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the importance of two specification choices when comparing productivity gaps …
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According to standard economic theory, households should equate the marginal revenue product of an input across activities within the household. However, this prediction may not hold in the presence of risk. Using data on farm plots and non-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of...
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transformation in global trading policies in the agricultural sector. The Sudan agriculture tends to look abroad to develop sales and …
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type of Bulgarian farms. First, it present a new approach for assessing farm competitiveness defining farm competitiveness … individual aspects and the overall competitiveness of farms. Next, it analyzes evolution and efficiency of farming organizations … during post communist transition and EU integration in Bulgaria, and assesses levels and factors of farms competitiveness in …
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Despite its importance and continuing debates, there is still no consensus on what is the competitiveness of farms, how … to measure the competitiveness of different organizations in agriculture, what is the absolute and comparative … competitiveness of different types of farms, which are the critical factors for increasing the competitiveness at the current stage of …
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level selected from Romania. The study focused on analyzing the data series in 2012 (the latest year reported in the FADN …
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order to be able to determine the global economic efficiency in the agriculture of Romania, first of all, indicators of the …This paper aims to analyze the economic efficiency at the macroeconomic level of the agricultural sector in Romania, in … order to determine the level of profitability or feasibility regarding this economic sector, respectively agriculture. In …
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In the paper we investigate relative productivity levels and decompose productivity change for European agriculture … between 2004 and 2013. More specifically (1) we contribute to the debate whether agricultural Total Factor Productivity (TFP … O’Donnell (2008), using country level panel data from the Economic Accounts for Agriculture for 23 EU member states. The …
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