@article{Zúniga-González:114036,
      recid = {114036},
      author = {Zúniga-González, Carlos Alberto},
      title = {Total Factor Productivity Growth in Agriculture:  A  Malmquist Index Analysis of 14 Countries, 1979-2008},
      address = {2011-08-29},
      number = {1134-2016-92465},
      pages = {20},
      month = {Aug},
      year = {2011},
      note = {This paper don´t was submitted on the conference, however  the author participated on the event. He member of the  European Association of Agricultual Ecnomist (EAAE)},
      abstract = {In this paper I study levels and trends in agricultural  output and productivity in 14 developing countries that  account for a major portion of the Central American and  Caribbean population and agricultural output.    I make use  of data of drawn from the Food and Agricultural  Organization of the United Nations and my period study  cover the period 1979-2008.      The study uses data  envelopment analysis (DEA) to derive Malmquist productivity  indexes.  The study examines trends in agricultural  productivity over the period.   Issues of catch-up and  convergence, or in some cases possible divergence, in  productivity in agriculture are examined within a global  framework.  
 
The results show an annual growth in TFP of  1.5 %, with efficiency change (or catch-up) contributing  0.1 % per year and technical change (or frontier shift)  providing the other 1.4 %.    In terms of individual  country performance, the most spectacular performance is  posted by Dominican Republic with an average annual growth  of 3.9 % in TFP over the study period. Other countries with  strong performance are, among other, Cuba, Barbados, Costa  Rica, Panama and Guatemala have posted a TFP growth rate of  only 2.9 every one.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/114036},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.114036},
}