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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture: A Malmquist Index Analysis of 14 Countries, 1979-2008
Crecimiento de la Productividad Total de los Factores: Un Analisis del Indice de Malmquist para 14 Países, 1979-2008
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| Autores: |
Zúniga-González, Carlos Alberto
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| Data: |
2011-08-29
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| Ano: |
2011
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| Palavras-chave: |
Total Factor Productivity Growth
Malmquist Index
Data Envelopment Analysis
Productivity Analysis
D: 24
O: 13
O: 47
P: 51
Q: 10
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| Resumo: |
This paper don´t was submitted on the conference, however the author participated on the event. He member of the European Association of Agricultual Ecnomist (EAAE)
In this paper I study levels and trends in agricultural output and productivity in 14 developing countries that account for a major portion of the Central American and Caribbean population and agricultural output. I make use of data of drawn from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and my period study cover the period 1979-2008. The study uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to derive Malmquist productivity indexes. The study examines trends in agricultural productivity over the period. Issues of catch-up and convergence, or in some cases possible divergence, in productivity in agriculture are examined within a global framework. The results show an annual growth in TFP of 1.5 %, with efficiency change (or catch-up) contributing 0.1 % per year and technical change (or frontier shift) providing the other 1.4 %. In terms of individual country performance, the most spectacular performance is posted by Dominican Republic with an average annual growth of 3.9 % in TFP over the study period. Other countries with strong performance are, among other, Cuba, Barbados, Costa Rica, Panama and Guatemala have posted a TFP growth rate of only 2.9 every one.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/114036
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| Relação: |
National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Leon (UNAN-Leon)>Researching Center for Agrarian Sciences and Applied Economic (RCASAE)>Conference Papers
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| Formato: |
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