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Agrarian Structure In Poland The Myth Of Large Farm Superiority
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Book Synopsis Agrarian Structure in Poland the Myth of Large-farm Superiority by :
Download or read book Agrarian Structure in Poland the Myth of Large-farm Superiority written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poland, present policies are aimed at promoting large, mechanized farms over smaller family farms. These policies are based on the perception that large farms offer real economies of scale. But international evidence indicates that such large, mechanized farms are generally less efficient and use less labor than small family farms. The authors analyzed the relationship between farm size and efficiency in Polish agriculture. They used two different methods to do so. First they determined differences in total factor productivity between small and large farms. They then used Data Envelope Analysis to estimate scale efficiencies. The results show that, for the sample of farms analyzed: 1) large farms are not more efficient than smaller farms; and 2) smaller farms are more labor-intensive than larger farms. These results have important policy implications for farm restructuring in Poland and other transition economies facing similar issues and conditions.
Book Synopsis The Agrarian Structure in Poland by : Zyl
Download or read book The Agrarian Structure in Poland written by Zyl and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agrarian Structure in Poland by : Johan van Zyl
Download or read book Agrarian Structure in Poland written by Johan van Zyl and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Agrarian Structure in Poland by : Johan van Zyl
Download or read book The Agrarian Structure in Poland written by Johan van Zyl and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poland, present policies are aimed at promoting large, mechanized farms over smaller family farms. These policies are based on the perception that large farms offer real economies of scale. But international evidence indicates that such large, mechanized farms are generally less efficient and use less labor than small family farms.The authors analyzed the relationship between farm size and efficiency in Polish agriculture.They used two different methods to do so. First they determined differences in total factor productivity between small and large farms. They then used Data Envelope Analysis to estimate scale efficiencies.The results show that, for the sample of farms analyzed:-Large farms are not more efficient than smaller farms.-Smaller farms are more labor-intensive than larger farms.These results have important policy implications for farm restructuring in Poland and other transition economies facing similar issues and conditions.
Book Synopsis The Public Sector in the Caribbean by : Vinaya Swaroop
Download or read book The Public Sector in the Caribbean written by Vinaya Swaroop and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 1996 The public sector's performance in the Caribbean varies, in reducing poverty and in creating an enabling environment for growth. Barbados and the Bahamas have been the high performers, Guyana and the Dominican Republic have been sluggish, and the other Caribbean countries fall in between. In the Caribbean region, the public sector is now the predominant provider of tertiary education and health services (university education and hospital-based curative care), which mainly benefit the nonpoor. Attempts must be made to recover costs from high-income users and use that revenue to improve the quality and quantity (as appropriate) of basic services. Lessons from experience suggest that most Caribbean countries need to encourage the private sector to participate more in providing infrastructure and need to provide a better regulatory framework. The good news: this is already taking place in many countries.
Book Synopsis Economic Implications for Turkey of a Customs Union with the European Union by : Glenn W. Harrison
Download or read book Economic Implications for Turkey of a Customs Union with the European Union written by Glenn W. Harrison and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Population Aging and Pension Systems by : F. Desmond McCarthy
Download or read book Population Aging and Pension Systems written by F. Desmond McCarthy and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Benefits of Alternative Power Tariffs for Nigeria and Indonesia by : Alex Anas
Download or read book The Benefits of Alternative Power Tariffs for Nigeria and Indonesia written by Alex Anas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 1996 The authors present simulation results on the benefits of alternative power tariffs for Nigeria and Indonesia, based on several closely related models of the firm. Nigeria is representative of developing countries where the public sector is inefficient and manufacturers provide their own electricity to compensate for that inefficiency. The use of private generators by Nigerian manufacturers is virtually ubiquitous, even though the government, to protect its monopoly, did not encourage that use in the 1980s. About 89 percent of a sample of Nigerian firms produced some of their power needs internally. But many large firms underused their power plants because of the substantial quantity discounts public power offered to large manufacturers. By contrast, in Indonesia, manufacturers were offered only slight quantity discounts for public power. Indonesia has encouraged manufacturers to produce their own power. About 61 percent of Indonesian manufacturers produced some power internally. Generally, in both countries firms purchase some power from the public sector at a quantity discount (slight in Indonesia, considerable in Nigeria) and also produce power internally at a declining marginal cost. The reliability of public power declines as the total quantity purchased increases, because transmission gets congested. Simulations confirm that an increasing block tariff is optimal in each country and produces savings in the cost of producing public power and in firms' operating costs (including the firm's cost of producing power internally). Under increasing block tariffs, firms that purchase more public power would be charged higher marginal prices than firms that purchase less. Large firms respond to the increasing block tariff by expanding their generating capacity and reducing their reliance on public power, while smaller firms contract their capacities and buy more from the public sector. When congestion in transmission persists, cost savings are higher as the increasing block tariff reduces total use of public power which in turn improves reliability. In Nigeria, where strong quantity discounts are offered, total costs savings (for NEPA and manufacturers) under 1989 conditions are about 4 percent without congestion and increase to 9 percent when there is some congestion. In Indonesia, where quantity discounts are mild, increasing the block tariff produces only slight cost savings.
Book Synopsis Infrastructure bottlenecks, private provision, and industrial productivity : a study of Indonesian an thai cities by : Alex Anas
Download or read book Infrastructure bottlenecks, private provision, and industrial productivity : a study of Indonesian an thai cities written by Alex Anas and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Law and Agroecological Husbandry by : John W. Head
Download or read book International Law and Agroecological Husbandry written by John W. Head and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable advances are being made in life science and agricultural research to reform the methods of food production, particularly with regard to staple grain and legume crops, in ways that will better reflect ecological realities. However, advances in science may be insufficient to ensure that these possibilities for agricultural reform are realized in practice and in a sustainable way. This book shows how these can only be achieved through changes in legal norms and institutions at the global level. Interdisciplinary in character, the book draws from a range of issues involving agricultural innovation, international legal history and principles, treaty commitments, global institutions, and environmental challenges, such as climate change, to propose broad legal changes for transforming global agriculture. It first shows how modern extractive agriculture is unsustainable on economic, environmental, and social grounds. It then examines the potential for natural-systems agriculture (especially perennial-polyculture systems) for overcoming the deficiencies of modern extractive agriculture, especially to offset climate change. Finally it analyses closely the legal innovations that can be adopted at national and international levels to facilitate a transition from modern extractive agriculture to a system based more on ecological principles. In particular the author argues for the creation of a Global Convention on Agroecology.
Book Synopsis Agricultural Enterprises in Transition by : Ludger Hinners-Tobrägel
Download or read book Agricultural Enterprises in Transition written by Ludger Hinners-Tobrägel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science by :
Download or read book Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparative Economic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia by : Charles Harvie
Download or read book Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia written by Charles Harvie and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third book in the series focuses on how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute to achieving and sustaining growth and performance in their economies, as well as the ways in which governments can assist and enhance that contribution. This is of particular concern given the trauma suffered by East Asian economies in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of 1997-98. Faced with the need to restructure and reform their economies and thereby achieve a firm foundation for future sustainable growth, many East Asian countries actively pursued SME growth, focusing on the encouragement of entrepreneurialism in the private sector. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of SME experts, the book provides a broad coverage of important aspects of SMEs, including: the contribution of micro-enterprises to economic recovery and poverty alleviation measurement and evaluation issues managing knowledge development ethical values in SMEs the internationalisation process entry mode decisions in export markets technological sourcing and use of the Internet. Presenting a contemporary analysis of SME developments in East Asia, both academics and policymakers will find Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia of great interest.
Book Synopsis World Bank Research Program by : World Bank
Download or read book World Bank Research Program written by World Bank and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foreign Aid's Impact on Public Spending by : Tarhan Feyzioglu
Download or read book Foreign Aid's Impact on Public Spending written by Tarhan Feyzioglu and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 1996 Using a model of aid fungibility, the authors examine the relationship between foreign aid and public spending. Based on a panel of cross-country and time-series data, their results show that roughly 75 cents of every dollar given in net development assistance goes to current spending and 25 cents to capital spending in the recipient countries. But concessionary loans - a component of development assistance - stimulate far more government spending. Their results also show that aid increases both public and private investment. To test aid fungibility across both public spending categories, they use a newly constructed data series on the net disbursement of concessionary loans. They find that concessionary loans given to the transport and communication sector are fully nonfungible. But loans to the energy sector are converted into fungible monies and part of the funds leak into transport and communications. Loans to agriculture and education are also fungible. There is no evidence of concessionary funds being diverted for military purposes. Their results show that total public spending in the health sector has no impact on reducing infant mortality, but concessionary loans to the health sector do. This finding leads the authors to conclude that linking foreign aid to an agreed-upon public spending program in areas critical to development might be an effective way to transfer resources to developing countries.
Book Synopsis Competitiveness and Employment by : Garry Christensen
Download or read book Competitiveness and Employment written by Garry Christensen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Technical Paper No. 383. This paper summarizes the findings of a multisector study designed to examine the efficacy and importance of various technology policies, technology-support institutions, incentive measures, and other sources of technological know-how. It examines how various firms in different sectors and countries improve their technology to increase productivity and product quality and develop new products and processes. Economies studied in this report included Canada, China, Hungary, India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico and Taiwan (China).
