Poor but allocatively efficient - Evidence from the Eastern Amazon

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-126

  Sauer, Johannes ^a   Mendoza Escalante, Arisbe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Efficiency; Joint production; Schultz hypothesis; Small scale farming

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FARMING SYSTEM; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAGANTINA; BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

MANIHOT ESCULENTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34447326941     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2007.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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