Governance and agricultural productivity: A cross-national analysis

Food Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 504-512

  Lio, Monchi ^a   Liu, Meng Chun ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HUA INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aggregate agricultural production function; Agricultural productivity; Governance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; DEVELOPING WORLD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; WORLD BANK;

EID: 55049100636     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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