Total factor productivity (TFP) growth measures usually focus on a certain direction of optimization and ignore the … data from 19 Chinese provinces over the period of 2004-2017. This research is important as China is the second largest corn …

important agricultural provinces indicates a great potential for China to increase productivity through improving technical …This study applies a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to analyze total factor productivity, technology, and … efficiency changes in Chinese agricultural production from 1984 to 1993. Twenty-nine provinces in China were classified into …

empirical application to Chinese agriculture shows that productivity grows at 2 percent per year on average from 1978 through …The paper extends the methodology of parametric decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index using an output … distance function. This approach addresses common methodological issues in total factor productivity estimation to produce …

country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture … in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest …

of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change and its components (technical change and technical efficiency … productivity grew at a modest rate of 0.03%, mainly powered by technological progress at 0.03% and a negligible decline in … either progress or regress in productivity performance over time. Investments in research and development (R&D), agricultural …

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and … results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth …-constrained countries. Within agriculture, crops and non-ruminant sectors have displayed the strongest growth between 1961 and 2001, and …

linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and poverty reduction. Agriculture plays a significant role in largely agro …