000014891 001__ 14891 000014891 005__ 20210803100923.0 000014891 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.22004/ag.econ.14891 000014891 037__ $$a918-2016-72677 000014891 041__ $$aeng 000014891 084__ $$aO13 000014891 084__ $$aO47 000014891 245__ $$aRUSSIA'S AGRICULTURE: EIGHT YEARS IN TRANSITION - CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE OF REGIONAL EFFICIENCY 000014891 260__ $$c2000 000014891 269__ $$a2000 000014891 270__ $$mvoigt@iamo.uni-halle.de$$pVoigt, Peter 000014891 300__ $$a46 000014891 336__ $$aWorking or Discussion Paper 000014891 490__ $$aIAMO Discussion Paper No. 31 000014891 520__ $$aIn this paper, we consider how Russian Agriculture has developed since the constitution of the Russian Federation. The analysis is based on Oblast level data of 75 territorial units during the period from 1993 to 1998 and is focusing on technical efficiency (TE), technological change, and (both aggregated as overall index) on Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Given that the initial natural conditions were approximately constant the consistence of political programs, market reforms and restructuring were essential determinants of regional developments of TE and TFP above or below the common trend. If this assumption is widely true an investigation of responsible circumstances for these divergences seems to be an important task in the actual regional-economic research. This paper should provide a step of such an analysis - discover common trends, make divergences visible and detect Oblasts characterised by diverging trends. The results have shown that the agricultural TE and the technological change varied dramatically among regions. Beyond it, we have found a growing gap of TE among regions and a relative homogeneous negative trend of technical change resulting, altogether, in a divergence of regional agricultural TFP. Because agriculture is for many regions the fundamental source of income this fact is alarming, especially when the local agriculture becomes noncompetitiveness in comparison with other regions, actually or in future. . 000014891 546__ $$aEnglish 000014891 650__ $$aInternational Development 000014891 650__ $$aProductivity Analysis 000014891 6531_ $$atechnical efficiency 000014891 6531_ $$arural areas 000014891 6531_ $$adivergence 000014891 6531_ $$aRussian Federation 000014891 6531_ $$aagriculture 000014891 700__ $$aUvarovsky, Vladimir 000014891 700__ $$aVoigt, Peter 000014891 8564_ $$9c889cc04-3ec6-4a38-8003-d096c8cad8a9$$s571075$$uhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14891/files/dp000031.pdf 000014891 887__ $$ahttp://purl.umn.edu/14891 000014891 909CO $$ooai:ageconsearch.umn.edu:14891$$pGLOBAL_SET 000014891 912__ $$nMade available in DSpace on 2007-03-08T01:43:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dp000031.pdf: 571075 bytes, checksum: 0b70b96a40e1675182849860bc8afdcf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000 000014891 980__ $$a918 000014891 982__ $$gInstitute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)>IAMO Discussion Papers