Table of contents for Productivity growth, "catching-up", and trade in livestock products / A. Nin ... [et al.].

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List of Tables .......  .........................................iv
List of Figures ......  ............................................  v
Acknowledgements ..................   ............................ vi
1 Introduction  .................................................1
2 Background and review of literature  ..................................... 4
   2.1 Scope for improvements in livestock technology ......................... 4
   2.2 Measuring aggregate productivity ... ..................................... 5
3 Productivity growth, 'catching up' and technical change ..................... 8
4 Productivity growth and decomposition for 1961-97 ........................   10
5 Productivity forecasts..........  .... ..................................  14
   5.1 Catching-up and the logistic function ... ................................   14
   5.2 Technical change-Estimation of the frontier ............ ........... 15
   5.3 Forecasting .............. ...................................19
 6 Implications for trade: Projections to 2005 ................................ 22
   6.1 Trade model and database ..................................... .22
   6.2 Macro-economic projections .... .................................. . 22
   6.3 Results ....................  ............................. 24
 7 Summary and conclusions ......................................... 32
 References .............. ...................................... ..33