change to TFP growth in the past, the large tax burden imposed by remaining distortions, and the challenge of population …We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 … years, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using an improved nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP …

"We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 40 years …, looking for evidence of recent changes in growth patterns using a nonparametric Malmquist index. Our TFP estimates show a … poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from changes …

productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost … output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the …

Ghana has made considerable progress over the last 20 years in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. The … require Ghana to double its per capita income over the next decade. In this paper we explore the growth experiences of other … evaluate sources of accelerated growth and their contributions to overall growth and transformation... The authors conclude …

Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question, we survey the empirical literature at micro and macro levels concerning … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests …

"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for … household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick … efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers …

Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms …

area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …, increased efficiency, or a combination of these factors. This study applies growth accounting and two econometric approaches on …

as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …

-change-induced higher global prices for food will lower Yemen's overall GDP growth, raise agricultural GDP, decrease real household incomes …