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--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …
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discuss the role of reforms in agriculture, enterprises, and international integration in this process. In addition to the … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …
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The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...
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This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high saving rates, the housing boom, an expanding current...
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We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment during the 20th-century was driven by new cohorts entering the labor market. A newly compiled dataset of policy reforms supports an interpretation of these cohort effects as human capital. Through the lens of a model...
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from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban areas. We combine rich household and individual-level panel …
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agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …
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