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A Strategic Approach to Employee Development in an Agricultural Bank

Eldridge, Derek - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 5 (1992) 2

Investigates (through interviews) the link between business needs and staff development policies within the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan. Analyses the Bank′s corporate planning cycle with a view to suggesting improvements that focus more clearly on staff performance eeds. The...

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Contingent Valuation Analysis of Government Provision of Agricultural Protection Services

Roberts, E.J.; McLeod, P.B.; Syme, G.J. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 5 (1992) 4

The contingent valuation technique has been significantly refined as a method of obtaining values of goods and services in situations where market transactions are absent and now finds widespread application in the valuation of the environment, and in valuing the preservation of animal species....

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Planning for the impacts of agrobiotechnologies

Marks, Leonie A.; Kerr, William A.; Klein, K.K. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 8 (1995) 1, pp. 35-47

agriculture. Developing countries will face a major challenge over the next decade as they attempt to develop policies and …

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How to Organise Agricultural Research and Technology Transfer: Lessons from India and Nigeria

Goldsmith, Arthur A. - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 4 (1991) 4

Is there a “best” way to set up national systems to develop and transfer better agricultural technology? The answer is of particular significance to African countries, which are struggling to solve their food problems. Drawing on a comparison of two developing countries, this article argues...

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Logistics in relation to strategy in dairying

Sankaran, Jayaram K.; Luxton, Patrick - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 23 (2003) 5, pp. 522-545

The earliest known instance of scholarly writing on logistics (in 1901) is actually located in agribusiness. While case illustrations of productivity improvements in logistics in agribusiness have routinely featured in the academic literature since then, such efficiency gains are rarely cast in...

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Comparison of Labour Standards for a Greenhouse Tomato Production System: A Case Study

Luxhoj, James T.; Giacomelli, Gene A. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 10 (1990) 3, pp. 38-49

predetermined time systems, such as the Element Times for Agriculture (ETA) tables and the Maynard Operation Sequence Technique …

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The effect of accounting methods on financial reporting quality

Hadiyanto, Andrain; Puspitasari, Evita; Ghani, Erlane K. - In: International Journal of Law and Management 60 (2018) 6, pp. 1401-1411

on the best measurement to be used in agriculture activities using a larger sample size of few countries. In addition …

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Land ownership and productivity in early twentieth‐century China: the role of incentives

Lee, Ming‐Hsuan - In: International Journal of Development Issues 10 (2011) 2, pp. 141-153

Purpose – This paper seeks to use data from China between 1929 and 1933 and provides new empirical evidence to the debate over the impact of land ownership and land‐renting systems on agricultural productivity. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate the OLS regression to...

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The evolution of the state and taxation: role of agriculture

Grabowski, Richard - In: International Journal of Development Issues 10 (2011) 3, pp. 188-203

state policy towards agriculture. Then the historical experiences of China, Japan, and Sub‐Saharan Africa are used to …, with respect to agriculture, is that a technological backlog must exist in agriculture. Practical implications … agriculture. Social implications – Investment in agricultural research has been declining. Thus, the availability of new …

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Bolstering food security through agricultural policies: cross‐country evidence

Petrikova, Ivica - In: International Journal of Development Issues 12 (2013) 2, pp. 92-109

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature by examining which combination of three important agricultural policies – land distribution, domestic food production, and trade liberalization – is most conducive to improving food security in developing...

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