Productivity growth and the effects of R&D in African agriculture

By A. Alene. 2010

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Impact of Economic Growth, Environmental Pollution, and Energy Consumption on Health Expenditure and R&D Expenditure of ASEAN Countries (2019, background): “Alene [46] found evidence that increased R&D expenditure led African agriculture to achieve enhanced productivity and growth; however, it did not examine the reverse association that economic growth increases the R&D expenditure.”
Resources, Policies, and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “The two exceptions are results from Avila and Evenson (2007) and Alene (2010), which found long-term TFP growth to average significantly more than 1 percent annually. However, Avila and Evenson (2007) included North African countries in their estimate, which biases the regional average significantly”
R&D Capital, R&D Spillovers, and Productivity Growth in World Agriculture (2018, background): “Fan (2000), who examined the actual development and adoption time for a number of agricultural technologies in China, and Alene (2010), who estimated the parameters of an agricultural R&D lag structure that seemed to be the best fit for productivity patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa, seem to find evide”