The Impacts of Scale Economies and Technological Change on the Growth of TFP

Yoshimi Kuroda

Chapter 6 in Production Structure and Productivity of Japanese Agriculture, 2013, pp 124-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As is well known, the Japanese economy as a whole experienced rapid growth from around the mid-1950s through to the early-1970s, with the annual compound growth rate for this period averaging more than 10 per cent. However, after this period of dramatic growth, it entered upon a stage of moderate growth with a much lower average annual compound growth rate of around 4 per cent. How did the agricultural sector fare through such a drastic change in the overall economic environment? What was the connection between agricultural production and the Japanese economy as a whole during the periods of rapid and slow or steady growth? In particular, it is of great interest and critical importance to analyze changes in TFP, since it is a major contributing factor to growth in agricultural production. Accordingly, the objective of this chapter is to measure and analyze TFP in agricultural production during the period 1957–97.

Keywords: Size Classis; Total Output; Technological Change; Total Factor Productivity; Scale Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137287618_6

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