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Productivity Growth, 'catching-up' and Trade in Livestock Products

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Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)

Page : 48 pages

File Size : 16,16 MB

Release : 2002-01-01

Category : Animal industry

ISBN : 9789291461165

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This document starts with a discussion on the scope for improvements in livestock technology and measuring aggregate productivity. It then looks into productivity growth, 'catching up' and technical change and productivity growth and decomposition for 1961-97. It also examines productivity forecasts with reference to catching-up and the logistic function and technical change-estimation of the frontier and forecasting. It also summarises for trade: projections to 2005 including trade model and database and macro-economic projections. The paper places particular emphasis on East Asian countries, and especially China.





Tomorrow's Agriculture

Author : Peters

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 881 pages

File Size : 24,29 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1351737155

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This title was first published in 2002: This volume represents some of the proceedings of the 24th conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) held in Berlin, Germany, in August 2000. The papers in this volume include the president's address, the Elmhirst Lecture and a selection of 20 contributed papers. It also includes panel discussion reports, reports on the discussion groups and mini-symposia, poster paper abstracts, and the synoptic view presented at the close of the conference by the new president of the IAAE, Joachin von Braun. The theme of the 24th conference was "Tomorrow's Agriculture: Incentives, Institutions, Infrastructure and Innovations", reflecting the rapid advances being made in the application of biotechnology in both the developed and developing worlds.