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外文翻译 原文 THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF HUNGARIAN AGRCULTURE: PAST PERFORMANCE AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS Material Source: Post-Communist Economies,2006(16). Author: Matthew Gortona, Sophia Davidovab, Martin Bansec,Alistair Baileyd 1.Methodology: Domestic Resource Cost (DRCs) Ratios While there is a lack of consensus on how, or if at all, international competitiveness should be measured, in practice the DRC ratio has been widely applied (Tsakok, 1990). The estimation of DRCs has been perceived as useful in comparing the competitiveness of unlike production systems and assessing the comparative advantage of alternative activities (Monke and Pearson, 1989). The DRC approach has previously been employed in assessing the international competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture, for the mid-1990s, by Banse et al. (1999) and by employing the same measure as the latter authors it is possible to analyse changes that occurred during the pre-accession period. The main weakness of the DRC measure has been perceived to be its static nature which fails to capture market dynamics (Tsakok, 1990). This problem is not unique to the DRC method and is shared by most cost-benefit analysis. One approach to dealing with this weakness is to conduct sensitivity analysis by assessing the sensitivity of the estimates at varying prices and quantities of inputs and outputs (Kannapiran and Fleming, 1999). 2.DRCs Estimates for 2000 to 2002 For each of the arable crops, corporate enterprises are more internationally competitive than individual farms (as indicated by lower DRC ratios). One substantial difference between individual and corporate farms is the amount of non-tradable costs per tonne. For example, for wheat produced by individual farms in 2001, the average cost of non-tradables per tonne was 14,705 HUF (€57.3). The corresponding figure for corporate farms was 12,377 HUF (€48.73). Differences in labour input, measured in terms of its opportunity cost, account principally for the hi