This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level … industrialization and comparative economic development across the globe. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity … establishes that lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with more intense cooperation and higher levels of …

population density and limited off-farm employment opportunities, enhancing agriculture productivity is key for sustainable … without significant growth in agriculture it will be virtually impossible to address poverty reduction. Given the high … largely determined by total factor productivity (TFP), which in turn is affected by macroeconomic policies and stability, and …

general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …

agriculture, which is closely related to the welfare of the poor in the rural areas. Therefore, to tackle income distribution … and induce high output production, and act as a bridge connecting Thai primary agriculture with the modern sectors. Agro … agriculture, to improve the real wage of farmers, and to prevent extensive urban migration. Qualitative analysis, input …

effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … the effect of natural land productivity on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector. In early stages … important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment …

massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents … agriculture as well as increases the supply of modern intermediate inputs to agriculture. Agricultural producers accordingly …, output per worker in agriculture is improved. Poor countries with less-developed credit markets are, therefore, far less …

productivity (TFP) under resource misallocation, when frictions are modeled as the taxes levied on a firm's output, and the range …This paper examines the extent to and the conditions under which resource misallocation negatively affects aggregate … productivity in a model of heterogeneous firms to the highest degree. I analytically derive the minimum aggregate total factor …