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In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca … found in relatively smaller plots, and a pronounced inverse-size productivity relation exists. We could identify some of the … the structural part, potentially linked to technical efficiency, pure discrimination, or other unobservable …
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Agriculture important in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning foreign exchange. Transport …
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, improving the availability of working capital is the most promising way to increase agricultural productivity. …
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The main purpose of agricultural activity, which also applies to other economic activities, is to obtain economic benefits. Economic outcome of agricultural activity is a result of the production potential of the farms, organisation of agricultural production as well as various types of...
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This article examines the mechanisms that transmit isolation into productivity. In particular, we study the effect of … isolation and transport infrastructure on welfare and agricultural productivity in the case of Madagascar. Madagascar is a good … we find the inverse relationship between agricultural productivity and isolation to be surprisingly strong. We isolate …
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This study is a first attempt to clarify major trends and factors of changes in production and productivity in Post …-Second World War Bulgarian agriculture. It incorporates an interdisciplinary approach and specifies crucial institutional, economic …, organizational, technological etc. factors affecting development of agricultural production and productivity. Firstly, evolution of …
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Allocative inefficiency in agriculture is an issue puzzling researchers and policy‐makers in China. Based on household …‐scale farmland, facilitating land transfer is a necessary precondition for improving allocative efficiency …
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growth, we examine the sources of change in agricultural production and total factor productivity (TFP) and decompose the …
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estimation of these models are used to calculate Total Factor Productivity (TFP) change and to decompose such change into … efforts are needed to improve productivity in both technological progress and technical efficiency where the latter is a … clearly reveal that it is imperative to accelerate agricultural productivity growth. This paper estimates micro …
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origin, this study has been undertaken to examine the impact of male labor out-migration on rice productivity, livelihood and … productivity parameters and women empowerment level. It was observed that the efficiencies of human labor and irrigation in rice …
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