@article{Ferreira:249721,
      recid = {249721},
      author = {Ferreira, Caliane Borges and Araujo, Jair Andrade and  Tabosa, Francisco José Silva and Lima, João Ricardo  Ferreira de},
      title = {Produtividade Agrícola nos Países da América Latina},
      journal = {Brazilian Journal of Rural Economy and Sociology (Revista  de Economia e Sociologia Rural-RESR)},
      address = {2016-09-30},
      number = {1346-2016-105308},
      series = {Volume 54},
      pages = {22},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {This article studies the total factor productivity (TFP)  in agriculture from 19
countries in Latin America in the  period from 1961 to 2010. In the analysis of the  countries’
economic performance, the parametric approach to  stochastic frontier production is used. It is
observed that  all countries had positive TFP change in the period from  1961 to 2010, which
showed product growth as well as  positive technical progress. The greatest TFP variation  in
Brazil is 55.73%, while the smallest change is in  Trinidad and Tobago, 42.06%. However,
the change in  technical efficiency showed to be decreasing to nearly 50%  of all countries. In
the case of scale efficiency, only  Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay had positive average for  the
period. Regarding the change in allocative efficiency,  all countries showed to be decreasing.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/249721},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.249721},
}