AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Bingxin Yu, Lilyan Fulginiti and Richard Perrin

No 19816, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This study has estimates a Fourier flexible production frontier to examine agricultural productivity in forty-one sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries during 1961-1999. The primary empirical result is that only nine of these countries experienced productivity improvements, while average productivity across all counties declined at the rate of 0.57% per year.

Keywords: Productivity; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19816

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