Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K.; Yu, Bingxin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2003
Agricultural productivity in 41 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries from 1960 to 1999 is examined by estimating a semi-nonparametric Fourier production frontier. Over the four decades the estimated rate of productivity change was 0.83% per year, although the average rate from 1985-99 was a strong...