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| Title: | What is the appropriate level of aggregation for productivity indices? Comparing district, regional and national measures |
| Authors: | Conradie, Beatrice
Piesse, Jenifer
Thirtle, Colin G. |
| Authors (Email): | Conradie, Beatrice (beatrice.conradie@nmmul.com)
Piesse, Jenny (jenifer.piesse@kcl.ac.uk)
Thirtle, Colin (C.Thirtle@ic.ac.uk) |
| Keywords: | Total factor productivity
Western Cape
South Africa |
| Issue Date: | 2009-03-31 |
| Series/Report no.: | Volume 48
No.1 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the appropriate level of aggregation for the construction of total
factor productivity (TFP) indices. The dataset covers the magisterial districts and
statistical regions of the Western Cape for the years 1952 to 2002. Over these five
decades agricultural production in the Western Cape grew twice as fast as in the
country as a whole but this average masks substantial regional variation. Results show
that TFP growth was negative in the Karoo, moderate in the Swartland, Overberg and
Southern Cape, and generally above 2% per year in the Boland and Breede River
Valleys, where there is extensive irrigation. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/49162 |
| Institution/Association: | Agrekon>Volume 48, Issue 1, March 2009 |
| Total Pages: | 12 |
| From Page: | 9 |
| To Page: | 21 |
| Collections: | Volume 48, Issue 1, March 2009
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