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Productivity Growth and the Revival of Russian Agriculture

  • by Nicholas Rada, William Liefert and Olga Liefert
  • 4/25/2017
  • ERR-228

Overview

Russia's agricultural total factor productivity in 1994-2013 reveals that output specialization has been a key feature of agricultural recovery in the transition to a market economy. Some districts specialized more in grains and oilseeds, others in animal products. The fastest productivity growth occurred in the South, which emerged as Russia's most important agricultural district.

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