@article{Mendali:143073,
      recid = {143073},
      author = {Mendali, Rebati and Gunter, Lewell F.},
      title = {Impact of Agricultural Productivity Changes on Poverty  Reduction in Developing Countries},
      address = {2013-01-19T21:07:17Z},
      number = {1373-2016-109166},
      series = {Paper},
      month = {Jan},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {We use multiple measures of agricultural total factor  productivity (TFP) change to examine the relationship  between agricultural productivity and poverty in developing  countries. We employ a stochastic frontier analysis to  estimate agricultural TFP changes for 113 countries using  output distance function in a multi input multi output  framework. We then make alternative groupings of countries  to allow for the possibility of different production  frontiers for countries with different income level, and we  examine the effect of these various measurements of  agricultural TFP on poverty reduction. Results from the TFP  analysis show that TFP change estimates by income groups  differ from those estimated using all countries in a pooled  model. This indicates that agricultural technology and  production frontiers may differ across countries based on  income levels. Preliminary results show that TFP change  from the pooled model has significant impact on poverty  reduction. However, TFP estimates from different income  groups didn’t indicate significant impact on poverty. The  relationship between TFP change and poverty is therefore  sensitive to the method used to estimate agricultural  productivity.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/143073},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.143073},
}