Agricultural development and productivity in latin america: the problem of measurement
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https://doi.org/10.22231/asyd.v1i1.981Keywords:
technical change, economies of scale, technical efficiency, Lowe and Malmquist indices, Total Factor Productivity (TFP)Abstract
The growth of agricultural productivity can have consequences
that are not trivial at all at the time of improving subsistence
consumption and increasing the income from this sector of
the economy. For authors like Fulginiti and Perrin (1998) or
Nin et al. (2003), it is possible that both the methods and
the data used until now have interpreted erroneously the
productivity of agriculture in some countries, biasing their
measurements. This is precisely the aim of this study and
to achieve it, the methodological development carried out
by O’Donnell (2008) will be used, to attempt to solve the
problems previously mentioned and to contrast them with
the results from traditional non-parametric methodologies.
Through Lowe transitive indices, the change in Total Factor
Productivity (TFP) is estimated, in this case of agriculture
in some countries of Latin America for the period of 1990-
2006. The results obtained questioned the empirical evidence
obtained in preceding studies. Finally, the hypothesis is
confirmed about differences in results of productivity, when
it is estimated through the contest of the Malmquist index
and Lowe indices.
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