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Impact of Institutional Quality and Research and Development (R&D) on Agricultural Productivity in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
by Agossou Justin Tovilode  and  Wanki Moon
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This study investigates the impact of institutions and public agricultural Research and Development (R&D) on agricultural productivity in low- and middle-income countries. The paper employs panel data with fixed-effects models, spanning 12 years and including 49 low-and middle-income countries. Agricultural productivity is measured by cereal yield, while institutional facto [...] Read more

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Can rural human capital inputs enhance agricultural total factor productivity? - Based on the dualistic economic structure perspective
by can wang
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Human factor inputs are key to promoting agricultural modernisation. Traditional economic theory suggests that improving human capital is the key to boosting agricultural productivity, but can this conclusion hold in China's dualistic economic structure? We use Chinese provincial panel data from 2000-2017 to examine the impact of rural human capital inputs on agricultural total [...] Read more

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Agricultural Exports, Other Exports, Imports, and Economic Growth: An ARDL Approach for Tunisia
by Emna Trabelsi  and  Nesrine Kachout
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This paper aims to study and quantify the impact of agricultural exports on economic growth along with other variables in Tunisia. For that purpose, we estimate the relationship between GDP, agricultural exports, other exports, and imports by applying the ARDL approach under the period 1990-2020. The results show a negative and insignificant impact of agricultural exports on ec [...] Read more

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Adoption Factors of Blockchain in Indian Agriculture Supply Chain Management Analysis using EFA
by Nishanth Rao Dugyala , Abishek Rauniyar , Mary Subaja Christ  and  Atul Kumar Singh
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The global agricultural supply chain grapples with inherent challenges, including opacity, inefficiency, and ethical concerns, necessitating innovative solutions, particularly within Indian Agriculture Supply Chain Management. Despite these challenges, a notable research gap emerges due to the limited exploration of adoption factors specific to the Indian agricultural context. [...] Read more

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Different perspectives on open data in agriculture: a case study on olive oil
by Antonia Ferrer Sapena , Ezgi Erdogan , Eduardo Jiménez Fernández , Elena Sánchez Arnau , Enrique A. Sanchez Perez  and  Christian Vidal Cabo
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Achieving food security through improved agricultural technology is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Indeed, it is one of the elements explicitly mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One factor that can lead to improved production and distribution systems is the availability of data of all kinds on the sector. In this paper we study what is happenin [...] Read more

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The Efficiency of Rural Public Finance Inputs in Promoting Rural Revitalization: Empirical Analysis Based on Henan Province, China
by Chaoyang Tu , Zhenyu Chen , Yasir Habib  and  Zheng Peng
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The No.1 document of the Central Government of China has been on the theme of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" for nearly ten years, placing the solution of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" at the forefront of the Chinese government's work. Located in the Central Plains, Henan Province in China is one of the major agricultural provinces in China and plays an extreme [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Economics school, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

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COVID-19, Financing Constraints and Total Factor Productivity of Enerprises
by Ling Ye  and  Yuxi Sun
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As the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world in early 2020, it is worth watching how it affects the total factor productivity of enterprises. Based on the theory of information asymmetry and the data of A-share listed companies from 2014 to 2021, this paper conducts an empirical study on the relationship between COVID-19 and the total factor productivity of enterprises. The re [...] Read more

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New Quality Productivity, Institutional Environment and Sustained Firm Innovation
by Han Sun
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This paper investigates the impact of new quality productivity on corporate innovation, and empirically analyzes it using A-share data from 2012-2022. New quality productivity, which includes emerging industries, future industries and digital transformation of traditional industries, has a significant positive effect on corporate innovation. The study shows that new quality pro [...] Read more

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Political Promotion and Manufacturing Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms
by Long Wang , Qifeng Zhao  and  Wenyin Chen
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This paper aims to investigate the impact of political promotion on the productivity of manufacturing firms using the database of Chinese industrial enterprises from 1998 to 2007. We found that the political promotion of officials had a negative impact on manufacturing firm productivity, and this impact varied according to the characteristics of officials and enterprises. [...] Read more

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Sources of Productivity Growth in the Indonesian Manufacturing Industries
by Martha Primanthi  and  Kaliappa Kalirajan
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Generating output growth by adding more inputs into the production process may not be sustainable in the long run for any economy, given the limited resources. On the other hand, if productivity growth dominates the production process, it will generate more output without excessive increase in input use. Hence, this paper examines whether the output growth in Indonesia’s [...] Read more

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How do R&D factors affect total factor productivity: based on stochastic frontier analysis method
by Shikuan Zhao , Wen Tian  and  Abd Alwahed Dagestani
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Based on provincial panel data from 1998-2018, this paper estimates research and development (R&D) factors, and a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model is constructed to examine the effects of R&D factors on regional total factor productivity (TFP). The results show that both R&D capital stock and R&D personnel can significantly promote regional TFP, but the [...] Read more

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The Impact of Digital Infrastructure on China's Green Total Factor Productivity: A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the “Broadband China” Pilot Policy
by Xudong Hu , Sen Wang , Jinpei Cao  and  Pu Hao
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The digital economy has emerged as a crucial driving force for promoting China’s green transformation in the new development phase. The “Broadband China” initiative, a key policy aimed at fostering the digital economy, plays a significant role in enhancing green total factor productivity (GTFP). This paper, based on the "Broadband China" policy and panel data [...] Read more

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Are Inventors Better CEOs? Evidence from China
by Qifeng Zhao , Qianfeng Luo , Long Wang  and  Wenyin Chen
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This study investigates the impact of inventor CEOs on firm performance using a manually collected database of firms' inventors. Our findings reveal that, on average, firms with inventor CEOs experience a one- and two-percentage-point increase in ROA and ROE, respectively, compared to firms with noninventor CEOs. To address potential endogeneity issues, we employ turnover analy [...] Read more

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The Impact of Strategic Alliances on Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from China
by Yanming Chen , Kaiwen Peng  and  Kangjie Zhao
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We investigate the impact of strategic alliances on corporate green innovation by collecting and collating announcements of Chinese A-share listed enterprises related to their participation in strategic alliances from 2007 to 2022, and yields three main findings: Strategic alliances significantly improve corporate green innovation, and it contributes more to symbolic green inno [...] Read more

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Research on the Heterogeneity of Green Biased Technology Progress in Chinese Industries: Decomposition Index Analysis Based on the Slacks-based measure integrating
by Yuxin Meng , Lu Liu , Zhenlong Xu , Wenwen Gong  and  Guanpeng Yan
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Green-biased technological progress takes into account the influence of energy input and pollution emissions, which is of great significance to China's green development. This paper decomposes technological progress into two categories: green input-biased technological progress (IBTC) and green output-biased technological progress (OBTC), using the Slacks-based measure integrat [...] Read more

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Gender Disparities in Land Rights a Myth or a Reality? Case studies of the situations in Kenya and Tanzania
by Sule Ayannor Issaka
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All things being equal, and in a truly democratic world, one will expect that the fact that women are the majority in almost every single community of the world should guarantee them at least equal control or ownership over resources and enjoy most of the rights and privileges in that particular community. But things seem not to be working that way as evidence from the literatu [...] Read more

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Does digital village construction contribute to improving food security?
by Minmin Huang  and  Yanhu Bai
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The issue of food security has become a global challenge, and it is therefore crucial to seek measures to ensure food security. As an emerging economic model, the digital economy is regarded as the most effective tool for the modernization of agricultural development. As a large food-producing country, China faces serious problems of agricultural non-point source pollution and [...] Read more

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Assessing Corruption in Times of Crisis: Empirical Evidence from Greece
by Paraskevi Boufounou , Kanellos Toudas  and  Athanasia Georgiou
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The goal of this paper is to provide an overall presentation of corruption as occupational fraud building on the findings of an empirical study conducted in Greece. As uncertainty leads to increased levels of corruption, Greece was chosen due to the prolonged period of uncertainty the country faces, caused by the 2010 financial crisis and followed by the Covid pandemic crisis. [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Business Administration & Supply Systems Management, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Investigating the Joint Impact of Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Domestic Interest Rate in Nigeria
by Innocent Chile Nzeh , Uche Collins Nwogwugwu , Maria Chinecherem Uzonwanne , Christopher Urua Kalu  and  Emmanuel Chinonye Akalazu
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The sensitive nature of interest rate has spurred empirical interests on the factors that determine it. This paper examined the joint impact of exchange rate and foreign direct investment inflows on interest rate in Nigeria over the period from 1981-2022. The study made use of the auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test and results of findings reveal that in both the [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Department of Cooperative and Rural Development, University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Umuagwo, Imo State, Nigeria
Department of Marketing, University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Umuagwo, Imo State, Nigeria

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Trinity for Innovation: Industry-University-Research Amends Factor Misallocation Based on the Dual Perspective of Capital and Labor Force
by Liwen Cheng , Zhouyi Gu , Changsong Wang  and  Hong Jie
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Based on provincial panel data in China, this study is the first to investigate whether industry-university-research collaborative innovation (IURCI) can help to improve factor misallocation. It is found that IURCI can significantly improve capital misallocation and labor misallocation, and the effect has regional differences, which shows that the improvement effect is obvious [...] Read more
Hit Affiliation:
Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information, Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanchang, 330200, China