Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

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 …

between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …

agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …

characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have … agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural …