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    Productivity Growth and R&D Spending in Australian Broadacre Agriculture: Empirical Analyses by Using Alternative Approaches

    238417_Khan 2015.pdf (2.138Mb)
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    Authors
    Khan, Md Farid Uddin
    Date
    2015
    Supervisor
    Assoc. Prof. Ruhul Salim
    Emer. Prof. Harry Bloch
    Dr Nazrul Islam
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1736
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This thesis computes and decomposes productivity changes and investigates the effect of research and development (R&D) expenditure on productivity growth in Australian broadacre agriculture. The empirical results indicate slower TFP growth, driven by declining growth in technical change and find a cointegrated and causal relationship between public R&D and productivity growth. With R&D spending seen to increase agricultural productivity significantly, impact variations across states emerged as important to public R&D policy development in Australian agriculture.

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