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The next frontier : human development and the Anthropocene

UNDP - 2020

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Rediscovering agriculture for human development

2007

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New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity : Implications for Industrialization and Development

Herrendorf, Berthold; Rogerson, Richard Donald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda

Gollin, Douglas - 2010

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …

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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution

Gollin, Douglas - 2018

We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...

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Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2017

This paper creates a new database that covers all banks in the United States in the census years between 1870 and 1900 to test the interaction between inequality and financial development when the banking system was starting over from scratch. A fixed-effects panel regression shows that the...

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Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development : Evidence from the U.S

Fiszbein, Martin - 2017

This paper examines the role of agricultural diversity in the process of development. Using data from U.S. counties and exploiting climate-induced variation in agricultural production patterns, I show that mid-19th century agricultural diversity had positive long-run effects on population...

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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture

Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …

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The role of agriculture in economic development : a conference of the Universtities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research

Thorbecke, Erik (ed.) - 1969

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Safeguarding human progress : reducing vulnerabilities, building resilience

Malik, Khalid (contributor) - 2014

Fostering sustainable human development : managing the macro risks of vulnerability / Inge Kaul -- Vulnerability traps and their effects on human development / Rehman Soghan -- The social value of employment and the redistributive imperative for development / Andrew M. Fischer -- Reducing...

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