SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM, economic differences amongst Russia's regions
have apparently increased. Even when allowance is made for the remarkably large …

A stochastic production frontier model with technical inefficiency effects is estimated on a
representative sample of Ukrainian state and collective grain-producing farms. Technical …

This study investigates returns of scale, estimates technical efficiency, and identifies the
determinant factors of the efficiency of small-scale cassava farming in Vientiane and …

This study analysed technical efficiency of small-holder farmers in rural and peri-urban
areas of Nigeria using 224 rural farmers and 393 peri-urban farmers in Benue State. The …

This study analysed the factors responsible for poverty among the smallholder farmers in
Nigeria using farm level data from Benue State. The Two-Stage Least Squares estimation …

A representative sample of 49 state and collective farms in Ukraine provides data in physical
units on livestock and crop production and input use for 1989-92. The changes in production …

Using 1971–90 panel data from a Siberian province, two econometric methods are used
side by side to examine technical inefficiency with a suggestion as to how the methods might …

Russia has been undergoing a profound political and economic transformation since the
mid 1980s. The article explores various aspects of economic transformation from the …

The dissertation consists of three essays that analyze relative growth of subsidiary farming
and a decline in the production of collective farms in post-Soviet Ukraine. The first two …

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a unique important leguminous crop to smallholder
farmers providing them dietary as well as income. Zambia being a developing country with …