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the dynamic effects of changes in the levels of agrobiodiversity, on technical change and productivity in intensive … the increased agrobiodiversity has positively helped to shift the production frontier outwards. This indicates that …
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this very narrow approach to increasing productivity would suggest. Genetic erosion is happening at a more rapid pace in … developing countries because of the somewhat faulty planning to bring about change and increase productivity. Above all …, agrobiodiversity, which is genetic diversity related to agriculture, is threatened not because of overuse but because it is not used …
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This study analyzes sources of productivity change in petroleum exploration and development in the United States over … learning-by-doing. The increased productivity of mature petroleum provinces like the U.S. helps to maintain competition in the …
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In this paper we develop a cost index-based measure of the expected consumer welfare gains from innovation in electricity generation technologies. To illustrate our approach, we estimate how much better off consumers would be from 2000 to 2020 as renewable energy technologies continue to be...
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A class of dynamic models is developed to assess potential gains from management of groundwater in arid and semi-arid regions in the presence of technical change. The aquifer is a common-pool resource (CPR) because users typically hold the right to pump groundwater but do not own the water...
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This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on … within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new … productivity. The simultaneous implementation of organisational innovations, however, increases the returns to the adoption of …
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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