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AN APPLIATION OF THE STOCHASTIC LATENT VARIABLE APPROACH TO THE CORRECTION OF SECTOR LEVEL TFP CALCULATIONS IN THE FACE OF BIASED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

Bailey, Alastair; Irz, Xavier T.; Balcombe, Kelvin George - 2003

of biased technical progress. This paper demonstrates the correction of factor shares used in the construction of a TFP … weights and the resulting TFPs are compared. There does appear to be some significant bias in TFP if the effect of biased …

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Science and technology and economic growth in South Africa: performance and prospects

Kaplan, Dave - 2008

– principally capital, but also labour. Technological progress, as measured by total factor productivity (TFP) growth effectively … growth. TFP growth, by contrast, became the major source of growth (Fedderke, 2005: 10). It is of singular importance that … TFP growth became so significant in a context where there are very major unemployed human resources – and with this …

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International technology diffusion and economic growth: Explaining the spillover benefits to developing countries

Seck, Abdoulaye - 2009

Technology spillovers offer great opportunities for economic growth to developing countries that do little, if any, R&D activity. This paper explores the extent to which these countries benefit from foreign technology, the diffusion mechanisms involved, the factors that shape their absorption...

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Productivity and Environmental Performance in Marketing Cooperatives: Incentive Schemes on the Horticultural Sector

Galdeano-Gomez, Emilio; Cespedes-Lorente, Jose; … - 2006

so-called Operative Programs (OP). The present study analyses the total factor productivity (TFP) related to …

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Measuring Productivity Change and Its Components for Fisheries: The Case of the Alaskan Pollock Fishery, 1994-2003

Felthoven, Ronald G.; Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; … - 2006

Traditional productivity measures have been much less prevalent than other measures of economic and biological performance in fisheries economics. It has been increasingly recognized, however, that mod eling and measuring fisheries production relationships is central to understanding and...

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Farm Productivity and Efficiency in Rural Bangladesh: The Role of Education Revisited

Asadullah, M. Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - 2006

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing hous eholds from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production frontier functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and...

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Factors Constraining Efficiency of Russian Corporate Farms: The Case of the Moscow Region

Hockmann, Heinrich; Svetlov, Nikolai M. - 2006

A time series model is estimated to identify the interrelation among prices on the international and the EU domestic market for butter. Although the findings were not derived from a causal model, the inspection of the data provides economically reasonable and important insights in structural...

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Productivity Growth and Convergence in Crop, Ruminant and Non-Ruminant Production: Measurement and Forecasts

Ludena, Carlos E.; Hertel, Thomas W.; Preckel, Paul V.; … - 2006

There is considerable interest in projections of future productivity growth in agriculture. Whether one is interested in the outlook for global commodity markets, future patterns of international trade, or the interactions between land use, deforestation and ecological diversity, the rate of...

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Agricultural Productivity Growth in the European Union and Transition Countries

Lissitsa, Alexej; Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat - 2006

Economic reform in the Central and Eastern European countries in the 1980s helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there are large differences among the transition...

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MEASUREMENT AND EXPLANATION OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY IN MISSOURI HOG PRODUCTION

Ben-Belhassen, Boubaker; Womack, Abner W. - 2000

The U.S. live hog production has undergone a significant structural change characterized by a trend toward larger operations. Experts argue that there is a cost advantage for larger farms due to industrialization and increased management intensity. One important element in production, mainly for...

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