@article{Uvarovsky:14891,
      recid = {14891},
      author = {Uvarovsky, Vladimir and Voigt, Peter},
      title = {RUSSIA'S AGRICULTURE: EIGHT YEARS IN TRANSITION -  CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE OF REGIONAL EFFICIENCY},
      address = {2000},
      number = {918-2016-72677},
      series = {IAMO Discussion Paper No. 31},
      pages = {46},
      year = {2000},
      abstract = {In this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has  developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation.  The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75  territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and  is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological  change, and (both aggregated as overall index) on Total  Factor Productivity (TFP). Given that the initial natural  conditions were approximately constant the consistence of  political programs, market reforms and restructuring were  essential determinants of regional developments of TE and  TFP above or below the common trend. If this assumption is  widely true an investigation of responsible circumstances  for these divergences seems to be an important task in the  actual regional-economic research. This paper should  provide a step of such an analysis - discover common  trends, make divergences visible and detect Oblasts  characterised by diverging trends. The results have shown  that the agricultural TE and the technological change  varied dramatically among regions. Beyond it, we have found  a growing gap of TE among regions and a relative  homogeneous negative trend of technical change resulting,  altogether, in a divergence of regional agricultural TFP.  Because agriculture is for many regions the fundamental  source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the  local agriculture becomes noncompetitiveness in comparison  with other regions, actually or in future.
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      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14891},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.14891},
}