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dc.contributor.authorNkamleu, G.B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:36:35Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:36:35Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationNkamleu, G.B. (2004). Productivity growth, technical progress and efficiency change in African agriculture. African Development Review, 16(1), 203-222.
dc.identifier.issn1017-6772
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/6294
dc.description.abstractThe paper examines the economic performance of a large number of African countries using an international comparable data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper focuses on growth in total factor productivity and its decomposition into technical change and efficiency change components. The analysis is undertaken using the data envelopment analysis (DEA). The present study uses data of 16 countries over the period 1970–2001. It was found that, globally, during that period, total factor productivity has experienced a positive evolution in sampled countries. This good performance of the agricultural sector was due to good progress in technical efficiency rather than technical progress. The region suffered a regression in productivity in the 1970s, and made some progress during the 1980s and 1990s. The study also highlights the fact that technical change has been the main constraint of achievement of high levels of total factor productivity during the reference period in sub‐Saharan Africa. Contrariwise, in Maghreb countries, technological change has been the main driving force of productivity growth. Finally, the results indicate that institutional factors as well as agro‐ecological factors are important determinants of agricultural productivity growth.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAgricultural Productivity
dc.subjectEfficiency
dc.subjectTechnological Changes
dc.titleProductivity growth, technical progress, and efficiency change in Africa agriculture
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.iitasubjectHandling, Transport, Storage And Protection Of Agricultural Products
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
local.dspaceid107576
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2004.00089.x


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