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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the profit efficiency of custom and self-farming methods of rice production in Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach This study examines the nature and extent of the profitability and profit efficiency of custom and self-farming based on...
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This study aims to quantitatively evaluate the rice policy reforms in Japan since 1995. First, I review the development of the Japanese rice policy reforms since the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and the transition of the representative indices that measure the level of agricultural...
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This paper provides long-term detailed estimates for Taiwan’s education stock. The average number of years of schooling per person by gender, age group, and level and type of education are estimated for 1888-1940 and 1947-2000. This is the first extension of Godo’s (2011) dataset, which...
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This paper presents a new dataset of education stock for Japan, Korea and the US. This dataset has three major advantages over exiting ones such as Barro and Lee (2000), Kim and Lau (1995) and Nehru, Swanson and Dubey (1995). First, this paper's dataset covers nearly one hundred years while all...
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The record of 'modern economic growth' à la Simon Kuznets (1966) shows that sustained increases in real national income in advanced market economies depend predominantly on improved efficiency as measured by the growth of total factor productivity (TFP). Real national income is less dependent...
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This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government's rice policy from both an economic and political viewpoint. The Japanese government made strenuous resistance to the opening of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on...
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