Sources of Differences in Agricultural Productivity Growth among Socialist Countries

Wong, Lung-Fai; Ruttan, Vernon W.

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-3253-1_4

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“…The estimate for the coefficient of land is slightly higher than those found in these studies where it ranges from 0.036 to 0.364 (Hayami-Ruttan, 1970;Nguyen, 1979;Mundlak and Hellinghausen, 1982;Kawagoe et al, 1985;Lau and Yotopoulus, 1989;Wong, 1986;Carter and Zhang, 1994). The higher elasticity for land is consistent with the fact that land is an important and limiting production factor for crop production, more than for total agricultural output.…”

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“…Most of these estimations of metaproduction functions use observations of countries with large variations in agricultural technology and in different parts of the world. Furthermore, two studies have estimated successfully a metaproduction function for nine socialist countries, including several CEECs (Carter and Zhang, 1994;Wong, 1986). Lau and Yotopoulos (1989) pointed out that the concept of a metaproduction function is empirically attractive because it allows an increase in both the ranges of variation of the independent variables and the total number of observations, thereby increasing the degree of precision and reliability.…”

Section: Empirical Model and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Causes of Output Decline in Economic Transition: The Case of Central and Eastern European Agriculture

Macours

Swinnen

2000

Journal of Comparative Economics

147

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This paper analyzes how policy reforms and other factors have effected agricultural output in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. Price liberalization and subsidy cuts caused a decline in relative prices for agriculture, contributing to almost half of the output decline. Transition uncertainty and severe drought each caused an average output fall of around 10%. Privatization, farm restructuring, and the associated disruptions affected output through input adjustments and production efficiency changes. Their impact differs between countries, as it is conditional on initial conditions and reform and liberalization in the rest of the economy.

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confidence: 69%

Section: Empirical Model and Hypothesesmentioning

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Causes of Output Decline in Economic Transition: The Case of Central and Eastern European Agriculture

Macours

Swinnen

2000

Journal of Comparative Economics

147

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“…As shown in later sections, the coefficient for livestock is not statistically significant and livestock was responsible for less than 1% of total growth in grain production. We nevertheless included it in the production function to be consistent with previous studies including Johnson and Brooks (1983), Wong and Ruttan (1988), and Lau and Yotopoulus (1989). Note.…”

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confidence: 75%

Total Factor Productivity of Grain Production in the Former Soviet Union

Bin

1997

Journal of Comparative Economics

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“…Our maintained hypothesis is that the reform of the commune system improved individual incentives and resource allocation, and thereby increased productivity (production efficiency). This is the same approach used by Kawagoe and Hayami (1985), Wong and Ruttan (1988), Johnson (1988), McMillan et al (1989), andWen (1993). 8 8 It should be noted that productivity gains measured this way may overestimate the effects of reform on productivity growth since the residual may also contain other elements such as biased technological change.…”

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confidence: 92%