Total Factor Productivity of Grain Production in the Former Soviet Union

Bin, Zhang

doi:10.1006/jcec.1997.1417

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“…The major factors of change in the 1990s were the disintegration of the centrally planned institutions in the agricultural sector and uncertainties in the legal status of land, which resulted in declines in agricultural subsidies, use of technology, and access to markets [9]. In turn, these forces precipitated significant declines of both cereal areas and grain productivity that bottomed out across the region around year 2000 [10][11][12][13][14][15]. Although the decline of grain production in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan was followed by slow recovery in 2000-2010, the productivity remains low as a result of combination of economic and environmental factors.…”

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Grain Production Trends in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Global Climate Variability and Change

Lioubimtseva

Beurs

Henebry

2013

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan are the three major grain producers in Central Eurasia. In the context of the current food-price crisis, these countries might be presented with a window of opportunity to reemerge as the major grain exporters if they succeed in increasing their productivity. Global grain production is highly sensitive to a combination of internal and external factors, such as institutional changes, land-use changes, climate variability, water resources, and global economic trends. Agroecological scenarios driven by climate models suggest that land suitability in this region is likely to change in future, due to impacts of climate change, such as CO 2 fertilization, changes in the growing season, temperature, precipitation, frequency, and timing of droughts and frosts. Grain production in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan grew steadily between 2002 and 2010 following a 10-year long depression caused by collapse of the USSR. However, in the summer of 2010 Russia and its neighbors experienced an unprecedented heat wave, accompanied by severe wild fires. As news of this disaster became known international grain prices increased dramatically. The future of grain production in this region will be determined by the interplay of climatic variability and multiple nonclimatic factors and is likely to have significant impact on both global and regional food security over the coming decades.

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Grain Production Trends in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Global Climate Variability and Change

Lioubimtseva

Beurs

Henebry

2013

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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“…Factors driving this decline were a dramatic reduction in demand, difficulties in upstream and downstream sectors, finance problems, and adverse weather conditions. Zhang (1997) finds that a decrease in inputs rather than a drop in total factor productivity caused the reduction in the former Soviet Union's wheat output between 1992 and 1995. Total factor productivity in wheat production increased by 3.5%.…”

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The impact of agricultural productivity increases in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on world agricultural markets

Weyerbrock

2001

Agricultural Economics

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This paper studies the impact of productivity increases in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on world agricultural markets and the regions' bilateral and sectoral agricultural trade flows. We use a six-region, 13-sector general equilibrium model. We find that productivity increases lead to a significant increase in the regions' agricultural output and exports and the former Soviet Union's agricultural imports. The former Soviet Union's net agricultural imports increase, whereas Eastern Europe's net agricultural trade balances improve. Overall, agricultural exporters will benefit, particularly, if productivity increases are not limited to or disproportionally high in agriculture. 0 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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“…Among studies which are the closest to out area of interest, are Arazmuradov, Martini, Scotti (2014) who studied total factor productivity (TFP) in the successive countries of the USSR. The same has been done, with more or less significant focus on a certain part of the economy, for instance by Zhang (1997) or Iradian (2007). A study researching into the TFP in the Czech Republic was conducted by Djankov, Hoekman (2000).…”

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Growth Decomposition in the Socialist Czech Economy

Soukup

Žídek

2021

Danube

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Economic growth in centrally planned economies was declining with the duration of these economic systems. There were multiple reasons for this development. Deeper insight can be provided by dividing economic growth into extensive and intensive parts. The goal of this article is to estimate the share of extensive and intensive aspects of economic growth in the socialist Czech economy in the last two decades of the socialist era (1970–1989). We conclude that the extensive growth in this period stood for approximately 55% of the overall growth. This figure is broadly twice higher than comparative numbers for the post-communist period.

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Total Factor Productivity of Grain Production in the Former Soviet Union

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Grain Production Trends in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Global Climate Variability and Change

Grain Production Trends in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Global Climate Variability and Change

The impact of agricultural productivity increases in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on world agricultural markets

Growth Decomposition in the Socialist Czech Economy

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