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Is agricultural productivity in developing countries really shrinking? New evidence using a modified nonparametric approach

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Title Is agricultural productivity in developing countries really shrinking? New evidence using a modified nonparametric approach
 
Creator Nin, A.
Arndt, C.
Preckel, P.V.
 
Subject AGRICULTURE
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
 
Description Nonparametric productivity analyses performed to date show that most developing countries are experiencing relatively rapid technical regress in agriculture. We discuss the plausibility of these results and argue that they stem from the existence of biased technical change and the definition of technology used. We reestimate the Malmquist index for a group of developing countries using a different definition of technology and find that most developing countries in our sample are experiencing positive productivity growth with technical change being the main source of this growth.
 
Date 2011-07-05T18:40:55Z
2011-07-05T18:40:55Z
2003-08-15
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Nin, A., Arndt, C. and Preckel, P.V. 2003. Is agricultural productivity in developing countries really shrinking? New evidence using a modified nonparametric approach. Journal of Development Economics 71(2): 395-415.
http://hdl.handle.net/10568/4133
 
Language en
 
Source Journal of Development Economics