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 …

contract terms regulation. These measures were meant for removing the obstacles to competition within and between the insurance … results, the industry experienced positive total factor productivity (TFP) growth during the observation period, which is … presence of increasing returns to scale led to efficiency gains of the firms. -- Insurance markets ; Total factor productivity …

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 …