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| Ball, V. Eldon; Butault, Jean-Pierre; Nehring, Richard F.. |
| This study provides estimates of the growth and relative levels of agricultural productivity for the 48 contiguous States for the period 1960 to 1996. For the full 1960-96 period, every State exhibits a positive and generally substantial average annual rate of productivity growth. There is considerable variance, however. The wide disparity in growth rates resulted in substantial changes in the ranking order of States by productivity. For each year, we calculate the coefficient of variation of productivity levels. We use these coefficients to show that the range of levels of productivity has narrowed over time, although the pattern of convergence was far from uniform. The fact that in some States, productivity grew faster than others and yet the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Production accounts; Multilateral index numbers; Total factor productivity; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33590 |
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