TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY AND THE EFFECT
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ANGELA LUSIGI; COLIN THIRTLE
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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This paper calculates multilateral Malmquist indices of total factor productivity (TFP) for agriculture in 47 African countries, for the period 1961Β±91. The average rate of TFP growth was found to be 1.27 per cent, which is higher than expected, given the pessimistic nature of much of the literature