This paper briefly presents the results of a total factor productivity (TFP) study of South African commercial …

This paper examines the linkages among agricultural total factor productivity, farm size, and farm household … relationship between productivity and measures of farm structure. The results support the expected relationships between the … endogenous variables, namely that productivity and farm size are positively related, farm size and off-farm work participation …

This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries … for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the … United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had …

We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we … increases in extension-schooling without commensurate improvements in research capacity did not improve productivity performance. …

This paper starts with the basic premise: that conventional measures of productivity growth - - -often used as a … productivity growth measure using activity analysis which integrates the externality/social output into a generalized productivity … productivity are biased upward when production of negative externalities (or bad) outputs is increasing. Conversely, this same …