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36
Citations
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2774
National Ranking
327

Overview

Colin Thirtle is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic profile centers on a research career with a focus on various fields and topics, although specific publications, topics, or research themes are not detailed in the available data.

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Best Publications

  • The impact of research-led agricultural productivity growth on poverty reduction in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Colin G. Thirtle;Colin G. Thirtle;Lin Lin;Jenifer Piesse;Jenifer Piesse

  • Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Alleviation

    Xavier Irz;Lin Lin;Colin Thirtle;Steve Wiggins

  • Technical, Allocative, Cost and Scale Efficiencies in Bangladesh Rice Cultivation: A Non‐parametric Approach

    Tim Coelli;Sanzidur Rahman;Colin Thirtle

  • Three bubbles and a panic: An explanatory review of recent food commodity price events

    Jenifer Piesse;Jenifer Piesse;Colin Thirtle;Colin Thirtle

  • Can GM-Technologies Help the Poor? The Impact of Bt Cotton in Makhathini Flats, KwaZulu-Natal

    Colin Thirtle;Colin Thirtle;Lindie Beyers;Lindie Beyers;Yousouf Ismael;Jenifer Piesse;Jenifer Piesse

  • RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND THE INCIDENCE OF POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

    Colin Thirtle;Xavier Irz;Lin Lin;Steve Wiggins

  • A stochastic frontier approach to total factor productivity measurement in Bangladesh crop agriculture, 1961–92

    Tim Coelli;Sanzidur Rahman;Colin Thirtle

  • A Stochastic Frontier Approach to Firm Level Efficiency, Technological Change, and Productivity during the Early Transition in Hungary

    Jenifer Piesse;Jenifer Piesse;Colin Thirtle;Colin Thirtle

  • TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND THE EFFECTS OF R&D IN AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

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  • Pesticide Productivity and Transgenic Cotton Technology: The South African Smallholder Case

    Bhavani Shankar;Colin Thirtle

  • Asian Agricultural Productivity and Convergence

    Kecuk Suhariyanto;Colin Thirtle

  • Dual Technological Development in Botswana Agriculture: A Stochastic Input Distance Function Approach

    Xavier Irz;Colin Thirtle

  • Agricultural R&D, technology and productivity

    J. Piesse;C. Thirtle;C. Thirtle

  • Multi-factor agricultural productivity, efficiency and convergence in Botswana, 1981–1996

    Colin Thirtle;Colin Thirtle;Jenifer Piesse;Jenifer Piesse;Angela Lusigi;Kecuk Suhariyanto

  • Total Factor Productivity In Uk Agriculture, 1967-90

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  • PUBLIC SECTOR PLANT BREEDING IN A PRIVATIZING WORLD

    Colin G. Thirtle;Chittur S. Srinivasan;Paul W. Heisey

  • Policy-Induced Innovation in Sub-Saharan African Agriculture: A Multilateral Malmquist Productivity Index Approach

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  • THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY: PATENTS, R&D SPILLOVERS, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED STATES

    David Schimmelpfennig;Colin Thirtle

  • Explaining the decline in UK agricultural productivity growth

    Colin Thirtle;Lin Lin Lin;Jim Holding;Lindie Jenkins

  • Induced Innovation in United States Agriculture, 1880–1990: Time Series Tests and an Error Correction Model

    Colin G. Thirtle;David E. Schimmelpfennig;Robert E Townsend

  • District-level total factor productivity in agriculture: Western Cape Province, South Africa, 1952–2002

    Beatrice Conradie;Jenifer Piesse;Colin Thirtle

  • Output and labour effects of GM maize and minimum tillage in a communal area of KwaZulu-Natal

    Marnus Gouse;Jenifer Piesse;Colin Thirtle

  • Modeling the length and shape of the R&D lag: an application to UK agricultural productivity

    Colin Thirtle;Jenifer Piesse;David Schimmelpfennig

Frequent Co-Authors

Jenifer Piesse
Jenifer Piesse Bournemouth University
Kelvin Balcombe
Kelvin Balcombe University of Reading
Timothy Coelli
Timothy Coelli University of Queensland
Sally A. Power
Sally A. Power Western Sydney University
Jennifer Roberts
Jennifer Roberts University of Sheffield
Philip G. Pardey
Philip G. Pardey University of Minnesota

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