An empirical analysis of productivity in Philippine agriculture, 1974-2000

Asian Economic Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 319-344

  Teruel, Romeo G ^a   Kuroda, Yoshimi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural productivity; Full information maximum likelihood; Philippines; Translog cost function

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRODUCTIVITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 5044219674     PISSN: 13513958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2004.00195.x     Document Type: Article

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