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 decomposed into technical and allocative efficiency,...

Die europäische Agrarpolitik führt zu schwerwiegenden Effizienzverlusten und hat Verteilungswirkungen, die gesamtwirtschaftlich kaum zu rechtfertigen sind. Anlaß für neuerliche Reformvorschläge der Kommission sind aber nicht diese Mängel der heutigen Politik, sondern die geplante...

Using panel data from about 1,500 farm households and estimating from a logit model, results show that agrarian reform has had a positive impact on farmer beneficiaries. It has led to higher real per capita incomes and reduced poverty incidence between 1990 and 2000. Compared to nonagrarian...