This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative...

[eng] Measuring Productivity Using Distance Functions by Ahmed Barkaoui, Jean-Christophe Bureau and Jean-Pierre Butault . Productivity measures are highly sensitive to the conventions adopted to measure service flows and fixed factor utilisation costs. An approach based on distance functions can...

This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative...