In this paper, we present a method to estimatethe productivity development of the Czech agricultural sector. While traditional productivity measures are based on macroeconomic data, we use individual accounting data of firms and determine the productivity development using the Fisher total factor productivity index. The results suggest that the development of agricultural sector is not highly s...

Although dry farming is important in Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Khorasan, as well as some other districts, a large proportion of Iran’s agriculture has always depended upon irrigation. Approximately half the annual grain crop, and an overwhelming proportion of other crops, are irrigated. With the exception of the Caspian littoral almost the whole of Iran is classified as semi-arid or arid. As i...

Purpose The main objective of this study is to examine how political institutions affect economic performance in Ethiopia over the 1980–2019 time periods. Design/methodology/approach Mainly, impact institution indicators including, level democracy, violence, democratic accountability and regime durability have been examined using auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test approach co-int...

A common and longstanding assumption in the economic growth literature has been that total factor productivity growth is lower in the agriculture sector than in the rest of the economy. Using a stochastic production frontier finite mixture model, labor productivity change is decomposed into catch-up, technological change and factor accumulation effects and stochastic shocks. This decomposition ...

The export of palm oil from Malaysia to China has declined since 2013, although the Malaysian Ringgit depreciated. market also struggled against Indonesian and soy in China. Hence, this study aimed identify significant factors influencing China's demand for by adopting Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) analysis. finding revealed that currency rate exchange, foreign trade price China, inter...

Peasant agriculture has been neglected as modern farming occupied its space in the production of basic foods. Exclusion of smallholders in LDCs is the outcome of declining prices for basic foods now produced and marketed globally by developed countries. This is an effect of globalization: it responds to advances in information technologies, communications, and biotechnology. Productivity gains ...

raisin is the second major export item in iranian agricultural section after pistachio. in this study, effects of exchange rate fluctuations were investigated on quantity and price of exported raisin. therefore, data of 1970 to 2008 were reviewed by time series analysis and estimated by auto-regressive distributed lag model (ardl). results show the absence of a long-term relationship between ex...