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Institutions And Agricultural Productivity In Mercosur, Preeti Bharati, Lilyan Fulginiti
Institutions And Agricultural Productivity In Mercosur, Preeti Bharati, Lilyan Fulginiti
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
We revisit earlier estimates of agricultural productivity in original Mercosur member countries and later associates: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, for 1972-2002. We estimate a translog frontier production function and revise our earlier estimates as well as those of others that indicated declining agricultural productivity. We find that the average rate for the region was a strong 2.25 percent. All the member countries experienced positive agricultural productivity growth for the sample period with Brazil being the fastest gainer. Institutions such as investments in public health and in public agricultural R&D, as well as an …
Institutions And Agricultural Productivity In Sub-Saharan Africa, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin, Yu Bingxin
Institutions And Agricultural Productivity In Sub-Saharan Africa, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin, Yu Bingxin
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the average rate from 1985-99 was a strong 1.90% per year. Former UK colonies exhibited significantly higher productivity gains than others, while Liberia and countries that had been colonies of Portugal or Belgium exhibited net reductions in productivity. We measure a significant reduction in productivity during political conflicts and wars, and a significant increase in productivity among those countries with higher levels of political …
Agricultural Productivity In Developing Countries, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Agricultural Productivity In Developing Countries, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin
Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications
This paper examines changes in agricultural productivity in 18 developing countries over the period 1961-1985. We use a nonparametric, output-based Malmquist index and a parametric variable coeficients Cobb-Douglas production function to examine, whether our estimates confirm results from other studies that have indicated declining agricultural productivity in LDCs. The results confirm previous findings, indicating that at least half of these countries have experienced productivity declines in agriculture.