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Agriculture in Brazil and China: Key findings from the OECD
Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
Presentation Overview: Convey key OECD findings about agriculture in Brazil and China; Identify the key results of policy reform; Present implications for the future.
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China’s Electricity Market Reform and Power Plants Efficiency
Ma, Chunbo; Zhao, Xiaoli; Ma, Qian; Zhao, Yue - School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
effort to improve production efficiency. In this paper we study the impact of the reform on efficiency of fossil-fired power … efficiency of previously SPC-managed power plants is converging to that of better-performing independent power producers (IPPs …); 3) capacity utilization and unit size are significant factors affecting changes in technical efficiency and the pattern …
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Migration, Local Off-farm Employment and Agricultural Production Efficiency: Evidence from China
Yang, Jin; Wang, Hui; Jin, Songqing; Chen, Kevin; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households’ technical efficiency of … impact of migration on technical efficiency is rarely studied. Methodologically, we incorporate the correlated randomeffects … and off-farm employment decisions and technical efficiency. The most consistent result that emerged from our econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069061
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Saving or stripping rural industry: an analysis of privatization and efficiency in China
Li, Hongbin; Rozelle, Scott - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 23 (2000) 3
analysis, however, finds a positive impact of privatization on technical efficiency. Efficiency of China's rural industries … occur immediately. Transitional costs apparently reduce private firm efficiency in the year that firms are being privatized … to China's business environment that the gains could rise further. However, we cannot say if the gain in efficiency is …
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Challenging the miracle of transgenic crops in China: findings from a case study in cotton using panel data
Pemsl, Diemuth E.; Völker, Marc; Wu, L.; Waibel, Hermann - 2008
Bt cotton has been cultivated in China for the past 10 years. Limitations of previous studies analyzing the impact of this technology are the short time period considered and lack of panel data. In this paper, we present findings from monitoring 150 Bt cotton farmers in 2002 and 2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301415
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LIVESTOCK PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA: DATA REVISION AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY DECOMPOSITION
Ma, Hengyun; Rae, Allan N.; Huang, Jikun - 2004
random coefficient frontier approach, decompose productivity growth into its technical efficiency and technical progress … considerable technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement was relatively slow. …
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Water users associations and agricultural water use efficiency in northern China
Zhang, Lei; Heerink, Nico; Dries, Liesbeth; Qu, Futian - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
differences in WUA performance by analysing the impact of WUA characteristics on the efficiency of agricultural water use … water resources are important factors in water use efficiency. We further find that WUA characteristics that positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913992
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Challenging the miracle of transgenic crops in China: findings from a case study in cotton using panel data
Pemsl, Diemuth E.; Völker, Marc; Wu, L.; Waibel, Hermann - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2008
Bt cotton has been cultivated in China for the past 10 years. Limitations of previous studies analyzing the impact of this technology are the short time period considered and lack of panel data. In this paper, we present findings from monitoring 150 Bt cotton farmers in 2002 and 2005....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565054
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LIVESTOCK PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA: DATA REVISION AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY DECOMPOSITION
Ma, Hengyun; Rae, Allan N.; Huang, Jikun - Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Studies (CAPS), … - 2004
random coefficient frontier approach, decompose productivity growth into its technical efficiency and technical progress … considerable technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement was relatively slow. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005803081
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SOURCES OF GROWTH AND SUPPLY RESPONSE: A CROSS-COMMODITY ANALYSIS OF CHINA'S GRAIN SECTOR
Colby, Hunter; Diao, Xinshen; Somwaru, Agapi - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1999
A growth accounting method is used to analyze the sources of growth in China's rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, the four most important crops in China's grain sector, during 1978-97. A large TFP contribution to growth in grain production is found in the period immediately following China's rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805821