This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …

agricultural productivity and output. However, even though this practice is widely spread and represents a large part of the … shed light on this issue by exploring the impact of agricultural input subsidies on agricultural productivity. Using a … the value of production per hectare as a measure of the effect on agricultural productivity. To this end, data from the …

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

-owned enterprises. The results are corroborated by propensity score matching estimates, implying that the estimated gender productivity … could partially close the gender productivity gap. …

This essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are …

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased …

-return migration (i.e. international migration) and employ modern technologies, thereby achieving higher productivity. Poorer …