Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture

Yoshimi Kuroda holds a PhD from Stanford University, USA, and is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Tsukuba, Japan and Visiting Research Fellow at The International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu, Japan.

• Part III: Impacts of Policy Measures on Postwar Japanese Agriculture 1. Impacts of Output Price-Support Programs on Postwar Japanese Agriculture 1965-97: A Variable Profit Function Approach 2. The Set-Aside Programs and Land Movements: A VP Function Approach 3. Impacts of Public R&D and Extension Programs on the Structural Transformation 4. The Impacts of Input Subsidies on the Structural Transformation