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Input, Output Technical Efficiencies and Total Factor Productivity of Cereal Production in Tunisia
Dhehibi, Boubaker; Bahri, Haithem; Annabi, Mohamed - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
. The findings revealed that significant factors related to TFP were age, education level and the share of wheat crops into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880312
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Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research
Fuglie, Keith O.; Heisey, Paul W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong...
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Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture
Fuglie, Keith O.; MacDonald, James C.; Ball, V. Eldon - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
productivity (TFP) for 1948 through 2004. American agriculture relies almost entirely on productivity growth to raise output. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327153
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German Productivity - A Reassessment via the New Ifo Productivity Database
Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2006
A detailed analysis of the German productivity development is indispensable for understanding, why Europe is lagging behind the US growth since the mid 1990s. In this paper a new and unique database is used to analyze the sources of German productivity growth since 1970. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312194
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Essays on network industries : privatization, regulation, and productivity measurement
Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007
This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...
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Effect of infrastructure investments on total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian agriculture
Mendes, Sergio Magno; Teixeira, Erly Cardoso; Salvato, … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
Productivity (TFP) and competitiveness of Brazilian agriculture. The Solow growth model with panel data is used to estimate TFP. An … effects of infrastructure investments on TFP. The lack of such investments in Brazil caused the effects to be larger and with … lag periods smaller than in other countries. These investments affect TFP in the first years, and the study suggests that …
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Evaluating Agricultural Productivity’s Impact on Food Security
Rada, Nicholas E.; Rosen, Stacey; Beckman, Jayson - International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium - IATRC - 2013
total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates. The present analysis evaluates the impact global agricultural TFP growth may … productivity plays in a country’s food security strategy. It also finds that TFP growth alleviates food insecurity primarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909819
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Measuring Total Factor Productivity Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: A Nonparametric Malmquist Indices Approach
Kondo, Katsunobu; Yamamoto, Yasutaka; Sasaki, Jun - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 36 (2008) 2
-1991. The results suggest that the pattern of TFP changes tends to be driven more by improvements in technical efficiency rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915579
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Evaluating Agricultural Productivity’s Impact on Food Security
Rada, Nicholas E.; Rosen, Stacey; Beckman, Jayson - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates. The present analysis evaluates the impact global agricultural TFP growth may … productivity plays in a country’s food security strategy. It also finds that TFP growth alleviates food insecurity primarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916168
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Productivity and Economic Growth in Tunisian Agriculture: An Empirical Evidence
Dhehibi, Boubaker; Lachaal, Lassaad - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
.38%. In the last period, namely 1991-2000, TFP decreased. On average, productivity growth increased by less that 3.6% per year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060626