Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in Australian agriculture … productivity growth has remained strong, relative both to other sectors of the Australian economy and to the agricultural sectors … of other countries. Such productivity growth, at a time when the decline in terms of trade facing Australian farmers has …

R&D is as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian agriculture. In this paper trends in … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries until an … New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. We review recent analyses and tentatively conclude …

Numerous methods for measuring multifactor productivity have been used by economists. This report uses a recently … developed approach, data envlopment analysis, to measure productivity. This method can be used not only to calculate … productivity but also to divide productivity measures into indices that measure technical efficiency and technical change …

climate variability and volatile commodity prices over the last decade or so. Relationships between productivity and …. Components of farm productivity and profitability are measured over the period 1998 to 2008. Economies of scale and scope are … shown often to be positive contributors to productivity and profitability. However, the main finding is that technical …

The objective of this paper is to review likely trends in key drivers of productivity with a view to suggesting the … rate of productivity growth that is likely to be required to maintain the competitiveness of Australian agriculture both … for achieving this level of productivity performance over the period to 2030.Growth in agricultural productivity has …

it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation is stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty. Improved … productivity in Kenya, using Propensity Score Matching technique. It finds that participation in ICT-based MIS project has a …