This research empirically investigates the well-known "poor-but-efficient" hypothesis formulated by Schultz (1964) assuming that small-scale farmers in developing countries are reasonably efficient in allocating their scarce resources by responding positively to price incentives. Deviating from...

Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert die optimale Organisation der Wasserversorgung unter Berücksichtigung der grundlegenden Gutscharakteristika und der spezifischen Produktionsstruktur. Es wird versucht, die Bestimmung der optimalen Betriebs- und Angebotsorganisation unter Rückgriff auf die...

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of firms' performance in the agri-food sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for value added, we estimate several bootstrapped regression models to draw conclusions on the marginal effects of...