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general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents …
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multiregional input-output tables and disaggregated employment data, we decompose change in labor productivity growth for seven … productivity of the different factors at the regional level. In this way, we present a new perspective for recent causes of China …
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foreign investments on the productivity of domestic firms. Using pooled regression analysis with fixed effects for the period … 2002 – 2005, we find that: (a) foreign investments have significant positive effect on productivity of domestic firms … are controlled for in the cross-section productivity regression, the relationship between the share of foreign technical …
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1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post … industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …
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Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
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This paper studies the relation between patterns of long-term economic growth and indeterminacy of equilibrium in an endogenous growth model with human capital formation. By introducing sector-specific externalities and a non-separable utility function into the Lucas model, we show that multiple...
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The study is a pioneering attempt to assess the socio-economic impact of the Block Planting Scheme (BPS) from the angle of the beneficiaries,implementing agencies and the policymakers.The report is based on the primary information gathered from 480 households drawn from Block Planting Units with...
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Abstract East Asian countries have been catching up with the West for most of the post-war period. Indeed, during the last 15 years, developing East and South East Asia have emerged as the most dynamic region of the world economy. This paper attempts to make analytical sense of this...
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Every year the economic sphere is developing intensively. Increasingly there new industries for investment. The problem is to find an alternative and reliable object for investment to multiply the capital invested. This article is scientific in nature and serves as a model error-free investment...
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