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Global Trade and Margins of Productivity in Agriculture
Farrokhi, Farid - 2020
We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general … technologies characterized by factor and input intensity. We evaluate the welfare and productivity gains from reductions in trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481545
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Technology Sophistication Across Establishments
Comin, Diego; Cirera, Xavier; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
, explaining 31% of productivity dispersion and over half of the agricultural productivity gap. The sophistication of widely used … technologies is more relevant for productivity than the most advanced technologies. More sophisticated technologies are appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015195003
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Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer : Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2009
productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463519
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Can Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture?
Deutschmann, Joshua W. - 2019
Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480002
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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Orden, David - 1994
, remain in effect for bilateral Canadian- U.S. trade. NAFTA received support from export-oriented U.S. producers of most … on Canadian export-pricing issues, and protected sugar, peanut, and winter fruit and vegetable producers. The opposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474130
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Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change : Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
Brown, Mark - 2017
high-value crops for export, the adoption of new seeding technologies and reduction in summerfallow observed at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453854
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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting
Krishna, Kala - 2014
Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458035
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2014
, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458229
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Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets : Evidence from 1.7 Million Fields around the World
Costinot, Arnaud - 2014
extremely rich micro-level dataset that contains information about the productivity---both before and after climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458585
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The intended and unintended effects of US agricultural and biotechnology policies
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff (contributor);  … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517862