Does Productivity Increase with Farm Size?
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A recent paper, "Are Mega-Farms the Future of Global Agriculture? Exploring the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship for Large Commercial Farms in Ukraine,” by Klaus Deininger, Denys Nizalov and Sudhir K. Singh, was presented on 16 September at ISET. The presentation was made by one of the paper’s authors, Denys Nizalov, an economics professor with the Kyiv School of Economics.
Ukraine’s agriculture started progressing after the land reforms of 2001, which established an effective land rental market. While the titles to land still belong to former kolkhoz and sovkhoz members, agricultural land can now be easily aggregated and leased to interested businesses.
ISET/ADB Workshop to improve Financial Soundness Indicators for Georgia
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ISET-PI collaborated with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on a three-day training workshop (2-4 September) to review the best international practices in measuring and monitoring the soundness of a country's financial sector. The event brought together NBG and GeoStat officials together with ISET researchers to facilitate improvements in the Georgian system of financial soundness indicators.
Financial soundness indicators (FSIs) are statistical measures compiled to monitor the health and soundness of financial institutions and markets, and/or their corporate and household counterparts. FSIs include both aggregated information on financial institutions and indicators that are representative of the markets in which financial institutions operate.
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