Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's iron and steel sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time period of study, source of data for analysis, and type of indices and econometric specifications used for reporting productivity growth. We derive both growth accounting and econometric estimates of pro...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank Joyashree Roy, Ernst Worrell, Puran Mongia, and Marta Khrushch for their valuable assistance and comments on previous drafts of this paper. Abstract Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's pulp and paper sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time p...

Eucalyptus species are native to Australia but grown extensively worldwide as short rotation hardwoods for a variety of products and as ornamentals. We describe their general importance with specific emphasis on existing and emerging markets as energy products and the potential to maximize their productivity as short rotation woody crops. Using experience in Florida USA and similar locations, w...

A measurement of the strong coupling constant αs using the event-shape variable y3 (the differential two-jet rate) in the reaction e+e− → hadrons is presented. The analysis is based on data from the TPC/Two-Gamma detector at the PEP e+e− storage ring taken between 1984 and 1986 at a center-of-mass energy of Ecm = 29 GeV. A value of αs(29 GeV) = 0.160 ± 0.012 is obtained, where the error is the ...

To calculate partial and total productivity of production factors in broiler farms in Yazd province, 72 manufacturing units were selected based on simple random sampling method and their information and statistics were collected for one production period in the second half of 2013. To measure productivity, the Cobb-Douglas production function was estimated using classic and fuzzy regression met...

What Is Productivity? In primary productivity of plants, solar energy is transformed to biomass. Using photosynthesis, green plants convert solar energy, carbon dioxide, and water to glucose and other carbon-based compounds and eventually to plant tissue. Gross primary productivity is the product of that photosynthetic fixation of carbon, whereas net primary productivity is the carbon that is a...

in accordance with the iranian government intention toward two step forward elimination of energy subsidies policy in coming years, we focus in this study on the extent by which the corresponding raising costs will be distributed across the livestock sector and how they affected food security. for this purpose, scenario of increasing energy prices and improving productivity at vertical and hori...