@article{Mugera:100687,
      recid = {100687},
      author = {Mugera, Amin W. and Ojede, Andrew},
      title = {Agricultural Productivity Growth in Africa: Is Efficiency  Catching-up or Lagging Behind?},
      address = {2011},
      number = {422-2016-26881},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Recent empirical studies on agricultural productivity  growth in African countries have
produced mixed results;  some find that uptake of new technology (technical  progress) is the
main source of total factor productivity  growth while others point to improved use of
existing  technology (efficiency catch-up). This study tests for  efficiency catch-up in the
agricultural productivity of 33  African countries from 1966 to 2001. We use recent  advances
in data envelopment analysis (DEA) to generate  standard and bootstrap bias corrected
technical efficiency  scores. In general, we find no evidence of efficiency  catching-up. The
standard DEA overestimated the efficiency  scores of some countries due to small sample bias.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/100687},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.100687},
}