While most contemporary historians agree that the use of debt peonage as a coercive labor contract in Mexico was not … property rights were reallocated through land laws, and Mexico's economy became much more closely tied to the United States. In …

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Mexico has experienced since 1995. Although fresh domestic bank lending dried up, tradable firms obtained financing in the …

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 …

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 …

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 …