IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea03/22104.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Sub-Saharan Africa: Methods for Examining Institutions and Agricultural Productivity

Author

Listed:
  • Yu, Bingxin
  • Fulginiti, Lilyan E.
  • Perrin, Richard K.

Abstract

This study estimates nonparametric non-stochastic Malmquist indices and a stochastic Fourier production frontier to examine agricultural productivity and its interactions with socio-political institutions in 41 sub-Saharan African countries during 1961-1999. We have learned from this study that on average, agricultural productivity in SSA was negative during the 1960's and 1970's, but has been positive during the last two decades. Institutions offer a significant explanation of at least some of the differential performance across countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Yu, Bingxin & Fulginiti, Lilyan E. & Perrin, Richard K., 2003. "Sub-Saharan Africa: Methods for Examining Institutions and Agricultural Productivity," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 22104, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea03:22104
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.22104
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/22104/files/sp03yu01.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.22104?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Productivity Analysis;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea03:22104. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.