Caribbean countries have historically relied on agriculture as a source of food and foreign
exchange. With increasing changes in global trading arrangements and partnerships, this …

Productivity growth is decomposed into two components: technical change and efficiency
change. This assesses their relative importance to the international competitiveness of the …

Most Pacific Island Countries (PICs) rely heavily on the agricultural sector for food, security
and source of economic growth. Thus, with the increasing population, especially in the …

This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture
between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity …

In this paper I study levels and trends in agricultural output and productivity in 14 developing
countries that account for a major portion of the Central American and Caribbean population …

Fortunes in the agricultural sectors of four of the largest South Pacific countries are traced in
recent decades by estimating the single factoral terms of trade index. The single factoral …

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the
Caribbean between 1961 and 2007 employing the Malmquist Index, a non-parametric …

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 …

The past three decades have seen extraordinary growth in cereal-crop productivity in the
developing world. Productivity growth has been significant for rice in Asia, wheat in irrigated …

We revisit earlier estimates of agricultural productivity in original Mercosur member countries
and later associates: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia …