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PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH, TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS, AND EFFICIENCY CHANGE IN CHINESE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION FROM 1984 TO 1993
MAO, Weining; KOO, Won W. - 1996
This study applies a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to analyze total factor productivity, technology, and … advanced- technology and low-technology categories. The Malmquist productivity measures were decomposed into two components … provinces for both technology categories. Technical progress has been the most important factor to Chinese agricultural …
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY UNDER PRODUCER’S INDIVIDUAL TECHNOLOGY: A METAFRONTIER ANALYSIS
Wang, Xiaobing; Hockmann, Heinrich - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
production technology is used to measure the interactions of technology adoption with time, input factors and output. Second …, linear programming techniques are employed to envelop the optimal level of technology. This procedure is applied to household … assumption that farming technology exhibits region-specific characteristics. Furthermore, there is a disparity of TE across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880325
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Technology Capital: The Price of Admission to the Growth Club
Evenson, Robert E.; Fuglie, Keith O. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total … growth. For technology capital we construct two indexes reflecting national capacities in agricultural research and education …-extension for 87 developing countries. We then correlate technology capital levels with long-term growth rates in agricultural TFP …
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Efficiency and Productivity Changes in the Indian Food Processing Industry: Determinants and Policy Implications
Ali, Jabir; Singh, Surendra P.; Ekanem, Enefiok P. - 2009
This paper analyses efficiency and productivity changes in 12 broad segments of food manufacturing industries during pre and post liberalisation periods, covering a period of two decades, from 1980-1981 to 2001-2002. The nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is used to compute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446432
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Efficiency and Productivity Changes in the Indian Food Processing Industry: Determinants and Policy Implications
Ali, Jabir; Singh, Surendra P.; Ekanem, Enefiok P. - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 12 (2009) 1
This paper analyses efficiency and productivity changes in 12 broad segments of food manufacturing industries during pre and post liberalisation periods, covering a period of two decades, from 1980-1981 to 2001-2002. The nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach is used to compute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546428
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Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research
Fuglie, Keith O.; Heisey, Paul W. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation's agricultural research system, including Federal-State public research as well as private-sector research, has been a key driver of this growth. Economic analysis finds strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327152
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AUTOMATION OR OPENNESS?: TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE IMPACTS ON COSTS AND LABOR COMPOSITION IN THE FOOD SYSTEM
Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Siegel, Donald - Department of Resource Economics, University of … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005338175
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Organic Rural Innovation Systems and Networks: Findings From a Study of Ethiopian Smallholders
Spielman, David J.; Davis, Kristin E.; Negash, Martha; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
Agriculture in Ethiopia is changing. New players, relationships, and policies are influencing the ways in which information and knowledge are used by smallholders. While this growing complexity suggests opportunities for Ethiopian smallholders, too little is known about how these opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068429
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Measuring Total Factor Productivity Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: A Nonparametric Malmquist Indices Approach
Kondo, Katsunobu; Yamamoto, Yasutaka; Sasaki, Jun - In: Journal of Rural Cooperation 36 (2008) 2
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915579
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RECENT EVIDENCE ON AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA: A METAFRONTIER APPROACH
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Xiaobing, Wang - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007
applied using a panel data set on 28 provinces during 1991-2005. The provinces are categorized into advanced- technology and … low-technology provinces. Based on the metafrontier estimation, TFP growth is decomposed into TE change (TEC), technical … low-technology provinces, respectively. Most of the advanced-technology provinces exhibited higher TE than the low-technology …
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