Institutions and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lilyan Fulginiti (), Richard Perrin () and Bingxin Yu ()

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Abstract: 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 rights and civil liberties.

Keywords: Sub-Saharan Africa; agricultural productivity; institutions; stochastic frontier; Fourier functional form. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-agr, nep-eff and nep-pol
Date: 2005-02-28
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 23. Agricultural Economics, December 2004
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Working Paper: INSTITUTIONS AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN SUB-SAHARA AFRICA (2003)
Journal Article: Institutions and agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2004)
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