Sources of Economic Growth in Latin America

Correa, Héctor

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“…This is consistent with results obtained by Correa (1970) and Wheeler (1980) who found a strong responsiveness of economic growth to improvements in nutrition. This is consistent with results obtained by Correa (1970) and Wheeler (1980) who found a strong responsiveness of economic growth to improvements in nutrition.…”

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Sources of agricultural productivity growth and stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa

Frisvold

Ingram

1995

Agricultural Economics

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This paper examines sources of agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Growth in the stock of traditional inputs (land, labor, livestock) remains the dominant source of output growth. Growth in modern input use was of secondary importance, but still accounted for a 0.2-0.4% annual growth rate in three of four sub-regions.Econometric results support earlier studies that suggest that land abundance may be a constraint on land productivity growth. Growth in agricultural exports and historic calorie availability had positive impacts on productivity. These latter results suggest that positive feedback effects exist between export performance and food security on one hand and agricultural productivity on the other. 0169·5150/95/$09.50 © 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved SSDI 0169·5150(95)01143·9

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“…The results are consistent with those of Wheeler (1980) and Correa (1970) who found that improved calorie intake made significant contributions to long-term economic growth in LDCs. It should be noted that the base period is the early 1970s, when many areas were suffering from extreme drought.…”

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Sources of agricultural productivity growth and stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa

Frisvold

Ingram

1995

Agricultural Economics

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“…The output elasticity of historic calorie intake is quite high, over 0.34. This is consistent with results obtained by Correa (1970) and Wheeler (1980) who found a strong responsiveness of economic growth to improvements in nutrition. Estimating a simultaneous model of basic needs provision and economic growth, Wheeler found that the elasticity of economic growth with respect to improved nutrition was nearly 2.0 in very poor less developed countries (LDCs).…”

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“…Far fewer studies have examined the impact of nutrient intake at more aggregate levels. Two exceptions are papers by Correa (1970) and Wheeler (1980) which found a strong and significant positive correlation between economic growth and nutrient intake in LDCs. Changes in calorie availability seem likely to have important productivity effects in SSA where 26% of the population is deficient in calories for maintenance and 44% are deficient in calories for work (Kates and Haarmann, 1992).…”

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Sources of agricultural productivity growth and stagnation in sub‐Saharan Africa

Frisvold

Ingram

1995

Agricultural Economics

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This paper examines sources of agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Growth in the stock of traditional inputs (land, labor, livestock) remains the dominant source of output growth. Growth in modern input use was of secondary importance, but still accounted for a 0.2-0.4% annual growth rate in three of four sub-regions.Econometric results support earlier studies that suggest that land abundance may be a constraint on land productivity growth. Growth in agricultural exports and historic calorie availability had positive impacts on productivity. These latter results suggest that positive feedback effects exist between export performance and food security on one hand and agricultural productivity on the other. • Corresponding author. 1 The views expressed are the authors' and are not necessarily those of USDA. 0169·5150/95/$09.50 © 1995 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved SSDI 0169·5150(95)01143·9

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“…See Bruton(1967),Correa (1970),Elias (1978), andElias (1992) for studies on Latin American countries. 20Star (1974:126) asserts that The great advantage of using disaggregated data is that quality changes are transformed into quantity changes.…”

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The Total Factor Productivity Debate: Determinants of Economic Growth in East Asia

Chen

1997

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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This survey article examines the recent studies of technological change or total factor productivity (TFP) as a source of growth in East Asian economies. The major objective of the paper is to show that in the end the importance of technological change in economic growth depends largely on how TFP is defined and measured. The conclusions drawn by Alwyn Young and Paul Krugman are based too much upon the assumption that all technological change is TFP. Section II reviews the conceptual and empirical literature on this subject since the 1950s. Section III surveys the TFP studies of East Asian economies, with particular reference to the recent claims that TFP is generally insignificant. Section IV discusses the prospects for East Asian economic growth and dispels the pessimism of such authors as Young and Krugman.

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Sources of Economic Growth in Latin America

Cited by 30 publications

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Sources of agricultural productivity growth and stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa

Sources of agricultural productivity growth and stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa

Sources of agricultural productivity growth and stagnation in sub‐Saharan Africa

The Total Factor Productivity Debate: Determinants of Economic Growth in East Asia

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