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Sources of Sectoral Growth in an Economy Wide Context: The Case of U.S. Agriculture

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  • Munisamy Gopinath
  • Terry Roe

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Growth in U.S. agriculture is linked to the non-farm economy through domestic terms of trade and factor market adjustments. With almost stable input growth, the relatively large contributions from growth in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) are passed on to intermediate and final consumers in the form of declining real prices for primary farm products. The resulting net growth in the real value of farm output (GDP) is relatively low (0.25% per annum). The decomposition of TFP suggests that public agricultural stock of knowledge and infrastructure are “robustly” associated with TFP growth, while spill-overs from private agricultural and economy wide research and development (R and D) are positive but, relatively small. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

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  • Munisamy Gopinath & Terry Roe, 1997. "Sources of Sectoral Growth in an Economy Wide Context: The Case of U.S. Agriculture," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 8(3), pages 293-310, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jproda:v:8:y:1997:i:3:p:293-310
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1007759705652
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