Have price policies damaged LDC agricultural productivity?

From: Contemporary Economic Policy | Date: October 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

HAVE PRICE POLICIES DAMAGED LDC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?

This paper examines price policies and agricultural productivity in 18 developing countries over the period 1961-1985. We measure productivity with both a nonparametric Malmquist index and a production function, confirming previous findings of declining agricultural productivity, but with sufficient inconsistencies as to raise concern about the adequacy of the methods. We nonetheless find considerable support for the hypothesis that unfavorable price policies have damaged agricultural productivity performance in these countries. (JEL ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

(book reviews)
; ...eds.). Economic development and agricultural productivity. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1997...bibliography, index. ISBN 1-85898-615-X. Agricultural productivity is a fundamental factor in economic...becomes more complex: the role of agricultural productivity in maintaining ...
Farmer education, knowledge and agricultural productivity
; ...knowledge for raising agricultural productivity, focuses on farmer...relative role in agricultural productivity and analyses knowledge...large increase in agricultural productivity requires a modernising...
Ball, V. Eldon and Norton, George W. Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth.(Book Review)
; ...Eldon and Norton, George W. Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth...Publishers, 2002, 320 pp., $121.00. Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth...contains eleven studies on U.S. agricultural productivity, efficiency, and agriculture...
Education, technology adoption and agricultural productivity
; Education, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Productivity* That agricultural productivity is directly related with the...a source of future growth of agricultural productivity. There is increasing evidence...
Fed: Productivity row reignited at rural conference
; ...government of ignoring agricultural productivity. Opposition primary industries...develop a measurement of agricultural productivity. "The monitoring and reporting of agricultural productivity is not up to scratch...
Changing Pattern of Agricultural Productivity in Brahmaputra Valley
; ...establishing relationship between agricultural productivity and population pressure for the...base and to observe changes of agricultural productivity within and between them. The...relating to emerging pattern of agricultural productivity in Brahmaputra Valley by analysing...
Agricultural productivity growth in the Andean community.(Award-Winning Undergraduate Paper)
; ...article examines agricultural productivity growth in the Andean...examine changes in agricultural productivity in the countries...others looking at the agricultural productivity of less developed...
Research and productivity in Mexican agriculture.
; ...published on Mexican agricultural productivity. Hicks studied Mexico...and Heath compared agricultural productivity for the land reform...research on Mexican agricultural productivity.(1) Agricultural productivity issues and the role...estimates of Mexican ...
TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO REMARKS BY AGRICULTURE SECRETARY ANN M. VENEMAN TO THE BURKINA FASO MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
; ...Science and Technology To Increase Agricultural Productivity in Africa: West African Perspectives...science and technology to boost agricultural productivity in an environmentally sustainable...need out of poverty. "Raising agricultural productivity not only reduces hunger, it also...
Agricultural productivity and economic growth: role of tax revenues and infrastructures.
; ...stressed a positive linkage between agricultural productivity and industrialization. The positive...comparative advantage, higher agricultural productivity solicits labor inputs from the...agricultural technical progress, (2) agricultural productivity in Japan is much higher than...