productivity of the firms. This study also examines how this effect differs among Egyptian firms in the agriculture, manufacturing … effective for agriculture than manufacturing and service firms; external knowledge plays a vital role in increasing productivity … external knowledge on the firm productivity are sector-specific; knowledge-workers and relational knowledge are two times more …

large number of low‐efficiency, small‐scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical …

agriculture, and examine the potential impacts of FDI in African agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – The dynamic Global … Trade Analysis Project model (GDyn) is used to analyse the potential impacts of improvements in land productivity and FDI in … Africa. Findings – The results illustrate that combined efforts to improve land productivity and growth in FDI could …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections of agricultural productivity, access to credit and … sources and agricultural productivity. Thus access to formal and informal credit increases farm household agricultural … productivity by about 0.10 ( p =0.05) and 0.45 ( p < 0.01), respectively. The quadratic terms of formal and informal credit as well …

Abstract Productivity growth in many advanced economies has decelerated in the last decades. There is increasing … evidence that the misallocation of production function has contributed to the weakness in productivity. Factors behind this … misallocation of production factors on productivity and assess their role for the weakness in productivity growth in Germany …

by the CBs, SCBs and RRBs, for production and investment purposes in agriculture and allied activities in India in the … institutional credit for development of agriculture and allied activities in India. This follows that the increase in the growth … data collected from the Handbook of Statistics of Indian Economy , 2009‐2010 published by the Reserve Bank of India …

Purpose – This article aims to examine the state of risk management in agriculture and power sector of India, evaluate … the various issues related to risk management in agriculture and power sector. Traditional derivative strategies have been … managing the volume‐related weather risk in an economy, like India, having predominant agricultural and power sectors …