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The NERICA varieties are modern rice varieties developed by AfricaRice which won its creator Monty Jones the 2004 World Food Prize. They are widely believed to offer hope for Africa’s Green Revolution because of their ability to grow under multiple stresses as well as their high response rate...
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The Stochastic frontier production function was used to assess the technical efficiency of cassava production in Epe Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Results show that cassava farmers in the study area experienced increasing positive return-to-scale (2.2675. The study also reveals that a...
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it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation has been stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty … ICT-based market information service (MIS) project on farm input use and productivity in Kenya. It finds strong empirical …
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the Romanian leadership is the one which can help to identify a new model of economic growth based on the emphasised areas' development, areas which have shown their potential and competitiveness. Such a growth model would be based on the orientation of SMEs in Romania towards the foreign...
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This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...
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-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …
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-industry externalities, on the productivity of Spanish firms. To the best of our knowledge, no previous paper has examined spillover effects … others affect a firm’s productivity. Additionally, firm’s technology level is taken into account in order to ascertain … especially, process innovations. Finally, innovation output has a positive impact on firm’s productivity, being greater in more …
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quality systems go with an increase in productivity. …
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Examines performance management, a strategy for improving employee performance and productivity. This approach involves …
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Outlines a methodology of measuring personal preferences to improve productivity. Quantitative (QN) and qualitative (QL …
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