scholarly journals The Impacts of Agricultural Research and Development Expenditures on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Selected Latin American Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Sefa IŞIK
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development ◽  
Latin American Countries

Distributional Weights in Benefit-Cost Analysis: Examples from Rwanda and Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Moss ◽  
Andrew Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Systematic Variation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Small Producer ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development ◽  
Benefit Cost

Abstract The question of how to allocate scarce agricultural research and development dollars is significant for developing countries. Historically, benefit/cost analysis has been the standard for comparing the relative benefits of alternative investments. We examine the potential of shifting the implicit equal weights approach to benefit/cost analysis, as well as how a systematic variation in welfare weights may affect different groups important to policy makers. For example, in the case of Rwandan coffee, a shift in the welfare weights that would favor small coffee producers in Rwanda over foreign consumers of Rwandan coffee would increase the support for investments in small producer coffee projects. Generally, changes in welfare weights alter the ordering for selecting investments across alternative projects.

Seeds of inspiration: breathing new life into the formal agricultural research and development system

2010 ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
Song Yiching ◽  
Zhang Shihuang ◽  
Huang Kaijian ◽  
Qin Lanqiun ◽  
Li Jingsong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Development System ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development

Agricultural Growth Accounting and Total Factor Productivity in Jordan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1709-1723
Author(s):  
Samia Nadeem Akroush ◽  
Boubaker Dhehibi ◽  
Aden Aw-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization

This article develops new estimates of historical agricultural productivity growth in Jordan. It investigates how public policies such as agricultural research, investment in irrigation capital, and water pricing have contributed to agricultural productivity growth. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual time series from 1961 to 2011 of all crops and livestock productions are the primary source for agricultural outputs and inputs used to construct the Törnqvist Index for the case of Jordan. The log-linear form of regression equation was used to examine the relationship between Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth and different factors affecting TFP growth. The results showed that human capital has positive and direct significant impact on TFP implying that people with longer life expectancy has a significant impact on TFP growth. This article concludes that despite some recent improvement, agricultural productivity growth in Jordan continues to lag behind just about every other region of the world.

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