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Technical efficiency of the Russian agriculture
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2016-4-144-155
Abstract
Based on the data envelopment analysis methodology applied in the cross-country context with a metafrontier approach and window analysis, the article provides a technical efficiency estimate of the Russian agriculture. The group of countries included in the study comprises the CIS, BRIC, EU, and OECD members. The time interval is 1992-2007. The research has revealed low efficiency of the Russian agriculture among the CIS members and a relatively large technology gap with respect to advanced economies, but which tends to decline. The estimates also indicate growth of the Russian agricultural sector efficiency within the CIS beyond the time interval of the research.
Keywords
data envelopment analysis,
DEA,
SBM модель,
data envelopment analysis,
DEA,
technical efficiency,
agriculture,
SBM model,
technology gap,
Russia
JEL: D24, O13, O47, Q10
About the Author
V. Korotchenya
All-Russian Research Institute of Mechanization for Agriculture
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Korotchenya V. Technical efficiency of the Russian agriculture. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2016;(4):144-155. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2016-4-144-155
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