Determinants Of Technical Efficiency In Agriculture And Cattle Ranching: A Spatial Analysis For The Brazilian Amazon
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- Igliori, Danilo Camargo, 2005. "Determinants Of Technical Efficiency In Agriculture And Cattle Ranching: A Spatial Analysis For The Brazilian Amazon," Environmental Economy and Policy Research Discussion Papers 31927, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy.
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- Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
- Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2005-12-01 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2005-12-01 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-GEO-2005-12-01 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-INO-2005-12-01 (Innovation)
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