PRODUCTION STRUCTURE, TECHNICAL CHANGE, AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN ALBANIAN AGRICULTURE

This paper analyzes the production structure, technical change, and to tal factor productivity of Albanian agriculture during the postwar per iod. Albanian agriculture faced severe structural problems such as lim ited economies of scale, labor-using technical change, decreasing part ial factor (land and labor) productivities, and slow growth of total f actor productivity. Agricultural development in Albania was based main ly on input increases, which accounted for almost 90% of output growth . Consequently, the economic crisis appearing since 1990 is not due on ly to the adjustment process toward a market economy but has also been affected by the postwar agricultural development strategy. (C) 1996 A cademic Press, Inc.