Measurement and sources of technical efficiency of land tenure contracts in Ethiopia

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 507-527

  Ahmed, Mohamed M ^a   Gebremedhin, Berhanu ^b   Benin, Samuel ^b   Ehui, Simeon ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Frontier production function; Land tenure systems; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346299317     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X0200030X     Document Type: Article

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