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This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by … exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly …
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This paper makes use of a new dataset to investigate energy intensity developments in the Netherlands over the period … evaluation of energy intensity developments in a wide range of Service sectors. We find that across sectors energy intensity … by a shift towards a more energy-intensive industry structure, while in the Service sector about one-third of the …
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We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi from late 2005 onwards, aiming at increasing agricultural productivity, diversification, value addition, commercialization and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical...
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...
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This paper uses a new dataset derived from a consistent framework of national accounts to compute and evaluate energy … intensity developments across 18 OECD countries and 50 sectors over the period 1970-2005. We find that across countries energy … aggregate energy intensity dynamics. A convergence analysis reveals that only after 1995 cross-country variation in aggregate …
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This paper addresses the interplay between economic growth, energy use, change in sectoral composition and … technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …
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Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi to investigate the impact of a reduction in transaction costs and improved market access on production per hectare and the...
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Russian agriculture in transition (1991-1998) was characterised by a production collapse due to aloss in quality and quantity of acreage, disinvestments, falling purchasingpower, and increasedimports. Neither traditional agriculture nor the nascent family farm sector havebeen able to ensure...
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We exploit plot data from the agricultural module of the third Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS-3) to investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from using organic inputs on a larger scale. We approximate...
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