This study determines how production and trade policy distortions affected rice productivity in thirty-three rice …-producing countries. A rice-productivity index for each country is constructed, and a model linking the productivity gap with policy … widened the gap in rice productivity between rich and poor rice countries. …

has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Productivity … supermarket channels increases farm productivity by 35-38%. Effects on technical efficiency are, however, insignificant …

agricultural productivity and rural household income and discuss some consequent policy implications. …

raise plant-level productivity by about 15 to 20 percent. However, the estimates reveal that efficiency in plants that … 1981-1991, increases about 30 percent upon their entry into foreign markets, while productivity in plants that become only … occasional exporters does not change at all. Hence, the positive impact of exports on productivity for is driven by the large …

Organizations offer employees with opportunities to cultivate their innovativeness and facilitate greater productivity …. In this paper we analyze preconditions for individual productivity of agricultural researchers in Nigeria, measured in … greater individual productivity. The statistically significant random-effect estimates show that there is considerable …

parameters that describe the distribution of productivity and trade costs across products. This approach has the considerable …

organizations on the canal improves farmers' productivity and the returns to land as was envisioned during the Irrigation Management …