This study examined changes in agricultural productivity at Benin in the context of diverse institutional arrangements … information was for a 43-year period (1961-2003); DEA method was used to measure Malquist index of total factor productivity to … TFP measures revealed whether the performance of factors productivity is due to technological change or technical …

climate variability and volatile commodity prices over the last decade or so. Relationships between productivity and …. Components of farm productivity and profitability are measured over the period 1998 to 2008. Economies of scale and scope are … shown often to be positive contributors to productivity and profitability. However, the main finding is that technical …

compared to that of the non certified ones. First we look at the productivity of the firms; second, we look at export behaviour …

the role of conventional factors of production (fixed, or physical, and human forms of capital) and their productivity … easier to make use of physical capital). At the same time, they managed to increase their productivity frontier. In the FSU … decrease of physical capital. This means that, even though technical efficiency relatively increased, the general productivity …