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Provedor de dados: 	Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Agricultural Productivity Growth in Africa: Is Efficiency Catching-up or Lagging Behind?	
Autores: 	Mugera,   Amin W.; Ojede,   Andrew.	
Data: 	2011-02-22	
Ano: 	2011	
Palavras-chave: 	Agriculture; Efficiency Catch-up; Bootstrap DEA; Africa; International Development; Production Economics.	
Resumo: 	Recent empirical studies on agricultural productivity growth in African countries have produced mixed results; some find that uptake of new technology (technical progress) is the main source of total factor productivity growth while others point to improved use of existing technology (efficiency catch-up). This study tests for efficiency catch-up in the agricultural productivity of 33 African countries from 1966 to 2001. We use recent advances in data envelopment analysis (DEA) to generate standard and bootstrap bias corrected technical efficiency scores. In general, we find no evidence of efficiency catching-up. The standard DEA overestimated the efficiency scores of some countries due to small sample bias.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://purl.umn.edu/100687	
Relação: 	Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society&gt;2011 Conference (55th), February 8-11, 2011, Melbourne, Australia	
Formato: 	30