Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth Convergence in Africa

Agricultural Productivity in Africa

Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other develop...

Agricultural Productivity and Growth

This paper investigates the growth experience of one country in detail in order to enhance our understanding of important factors that a¤ect economic growth. Using a two sector model we identify the low productivity growth in the agricultural sector as the main reason for the divergence of income per capita between Turkey and its peer countries. An extended model that incorporates distortions i...

Investigating Agricultural Productivity Growth and Convergence in Iran and Eastern African Countries

The issue of convergence or divergence of productivity has important policy for regional poverty reduction and increasing standards of living. If productivity converges to a common level without intervention, there is little need for explicit policies in lagging regions to promote catch up. On the other hand, productivity has divergence trend, then explicit policies would be needed to prevent f...

Gender issues in agricultural liberalisation

The authors gratefully acknowledge support for the preparation of this report from the Directorate General for Development (DGVIII) of the European Commission. However, the views expressed and any errors or omissions are those of the authors and not of DGVIII.

A Chronological Study of Total Factor Productivity and Agricultural Growth in U.S. Agriculture