agricultural growth in Brazil has largely been the result of gains in productivity over the last several decades. Still, there … remain some sub-national regions and states that lag behind in both agricultural productivity and levels of per capita income … regions with focus on the evolution and patterns of land productivity. To assess such spillovers, we examine three cereal …

their nutrition sensitivity at the policy level, using a convergence framework. The three key entry points for agriculture …

country received 2.5 percent growth as a result of spillover. Finally, our results suggest that convergence dynamics is much …

. Although the lack of convergence is well documented, there lingers a substantial gap in articulating what needs to be assessed … to ensure that convergence is indeed happening, or not happening. In an effort to close this gap, in this paper we … describe a possible framework to enable convergence across sectors for action on nutrition. Our framework notes that issues …

related to the symptoms of poverty at the expense of the longer-term needs to raise productivity and incomes, and thereby … smallholder productivity, achieve food security, and reduce poverty, while providing the social services that respond to immediate … welfare requirements. The main objective of the convergence agenda exposed in this paper is to identify strategies that would …

We document that structural change accounts for approximately one-fifth of the total change in labor productivity in …, significant gains to aggregate labor productivity are still available from further shifts of labor to higher-productivity sectors …. We discuss the factors limiting structural change, which include poor agricultural productivity, insufficient infrastruc …

productivity, growth declines and the GDP share of the nontraded sector further increases. Smart use of oil revenue thus not only … involves the creation of an oil fund but also spending inflows on productivity-enhancing investment. Whether public investments … investment-to-productivity-growth efficiency, public investments take longer to overcome the negative growth effects the higher …