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مجله اقتصاد و توسعه کشاورزی, 2016 Introduction: Food processing industries are one of the major industrial groups in developing countries which play an important role in the economic development of these countries.
M. Nabishahikitash +2 more
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Bank efficiency in the enlarged European Union [PDF]
, 2006 This paper aims to estimate bank efficiency differences across member states of the European Union and tries to explain their causes. We show on an empirical basis that the level and spread of bank efficiency in the EU and their changes are significantly
Hollo, Daniel, Nagy, Marton
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Nigeria Agricultural Journal, 2014 This study employed a translog stochastic frontier profit function to measure the level and determinants of economic efficiency in Mushroom Production. A multi-stage randomised sampling technique was used in selecting 30 mushroom farmers from each of the three Agricultural Zones of Abia State.
Kalu, CA, Ogbueghu, OU, Mbanasor, JA
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Evolution of Production Specialization and Factor Accumulation in Sub‐Saharan and North Africa
Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 518-548, February 2026.ABSTRACT Despite trade liberalization and regional economic integration policies, the level of trade and specialization in Africa is stagnating. This long‐term observation contrasts with recent developments in Africa since the 2000s. This study aims to assess how changes in factor endowments affect the specialization pattern of production, exploring ...
Rimvie Enoc Kaboré
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Mental Accounting, Remittances, and Celebrations
Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 411-437, February 2026.ABSTRACT Is one KGS of remittance income equal to one KGS of another source of income? The traditional concept of fungibility suggests that it is. However, if it is not, then migrant money transfers may cause behavioral changes at the household level, and their development impact can be huge.
Nurgul Tilenbaeva
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An Analysis of Allocative Efficiency of Wheat Growers in Northern Pakistan [PDF]
Restricted translog production model is used to estimate the allocative efficiency of wheat growers in Peshawar Valley. It is found that average allocative efficiency is 72 percent.
Dilawar Khan, Muhammad Bashir
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Growth Accounting in the Open Economy: An Array of Perspectives
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, we show how Törnqvist growth accounting in the open economy can be conducted from a number of different perspectives, depending on which input and output prices or quantities are chosen to be the explanatory factors. This approach offers a wide spectrum of decompositions, each one being potentially best suited to analyze ...
Ulrich Kohli
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Redundancies in an industry in transition: who gets fired and why? Evidence from one consumer-goods industry in Russia [PDF]
Does employee productivity explain why during a period of crisis firms fired relatively more blue-collar than white-collar workers and why, when conditions improved, they began to hire relatively more blue collars?
Rinaldi, Gustavo
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Multi-Output Broadacre Agricultural Production: Estimating A Cost Function Using Quasi-Micro Farm Level Data From Australia [PDF]
Existing econometric models for Australian broadacre agricultural production are few and have become dated. This paper estimates a multi-product restricted cost function using a unique quasi-micro farm level dataset from the Australian Agricultural and ...
McLaren, Keith Robert +2 more
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Economic performance of exotic dairy cattle under smallholder conditions in the marginal zones of Kenya using three analytical approaches [PDF]
Smallholder exotic dairy cattle have been adopted in the dry marginal zones of Kenya from the high potential areas over the last two decades contrary to the opinion of experts.
Hoag, Dana L. +2 more
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