We use multiple measures of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change to examine the relationship between agricultural productivity and poverty in developing countries. We employ a stochastic frontier analysis to estimate agricultural TFP changes for 113 countries using output distance...

We measure Malmquist index of total factor productivity (TFP) changes in the agricultural sector of Brazil and Argentina during 1971-2002. The TFP change index is further decomposed into efficiency change and technical change. We then compare the cumulative TFP growth and its components in both...

The primary objective of this study is to asses the impact of agricultural foreign aid on agricultural output in developing countries. In order to examine this effect, we will employ a cross-section time-series econometric model where we employ annual data from 1974 through 2005 for 112...