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Agricultural Productivity Growth in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 220
This study estimates two nonparametric nonstochastic
Malmquist indexes and a parametric stochastic
translog-Fourier production frontier to examine
agricultural productivity and its interactions with
sociopolitical institutions in 41 sub-Saharan
African, SSA, countries during the period of 1961-
1999. On average, agricultural productivity in SSA
was suffered a regression in productivity during and
1970s, but recovered in the mid-1980s to achieve a
reasonably sound productivity improvement through
the end of the century. This study contributes to
the robustness of research on SSA agriculture with a
broader geographical and time scope.
Colonial heritage is found to be strongly correlated
with total factor productivity growth rate, after
controlling input quality. British colonies
exhibited the highest productivity growth rate, and
three ex-Belgian colonies the lowest. The difference
between former colonies was determined in
significant measure by the estimated effects of
difference in political and civil liberties. The
results indicate that institutional factors are
important determinants of agricultural productivity
growth.
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