This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture … Analysis with variable returns to scale, and related to a Malmquist index of total factor productivity and to selected policy …

The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform … process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is … that during the more market-oriented reform period in the mid 1980s productivity and technical efficiency increased while …