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Abstract
The issue of convergence or divergence of productivity has
important policy for regional poverty reduction and increasing
standards of living. If productivity converges to a common level
without intervention, there is little need for explicit policies in
lagging regions to promote catch up. On the other hand,
productivity has divergence trend, then explicit policies would
be needed to prevent further lagging of TFP and standard of
living. Therefore, with regard to importance subject, this paper
in finding out whether Iran and Eastern African countries in
agriculture have managed to narrow their productivity gap? The
results show that the range changes of average TFP growth lies
between -4.9 percent in Rwanda countries and 1.1 percent in
Iran and Somalia. The results of convergence test indicate that,
from among 9 countries under consideration only five countries,
be converging to the mean. Therefore, these countries managed
to make better use of new available technologies, thus reaching
far greater productivity levels than others. On the opposite, convergence
can not be accepted for the rest countries.