In this paper we examine the levels and trends in agricultural output and productivity in 93
developed and developing countries that account for a major portion of the world population …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

This article measures and compares total factor productivity growth in African agriculture
under contemporaneous and sequential technology frontiers over the period 1970–2004 …

Nonparametric productivity analyses performed to date show that most developing countries
are experiencing relatively rapid technical regress in agriculture. We discuss the plausibility …

Agricultural productivity is central to the lives of most Africans. Twothirds of the population of
sub-Saharan Africa is rural, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) counts nearly …

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ending hunger and poverty IFPRIⓇ Supported by the CGIAR IFPRI Discussion Paper 00787 …

Este artículo hace tres contribuciones a la literatura en productividad agrícola. En primer
lugar, se estima el crecimiento en la productividad total de factores (PTF) para un panel de …

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 …

The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in
recent years has indeed been quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time …

Taxing agriculture to mobilize resources for industrialization has been a widely used
development strategy. Using novel cross‐country time‐series data sets with direct measures …