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Russia’s Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth (Rural Economies in Transition)
Zvi Lerman
2008
Georgia Southern University faculty member Gregory J. Brock co-authored “Technical Efficiency in Russian Agriculture” in the publication Russia’s Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth (Rural Economies in Transition).
Chapter Summary: For decades, Russian agriculture had had little technological progress and virtually no foreign investment, which resulted in a stable production possibilities frontier and made the sector ideally suited to production function analysis. The production function estimations reported in Chapters 10-13 add to a series of previous studies of the input/output relationship in Russian agriculture (e.g., Clayton, 1980, 1984; Gray, 1981; Johnson and Brooks, 1983), which generally followed ... Read more
