This paper develops a frontier shadow cost function approach to estimate empirically the effects of technological change, technical and allocative efficiency improvement in Chinese agriculture during the reform period (1980-93). The results reveal that the first phase rural reforms (1979-84)...

Considering the current and future dynamics of the agricultural sector, Ecuador’s national agricultural policy is in a process of adjustment in order to structurally strengthen the sector. One of the policies being analyze is the technological kit given under the framework of the subsidies...