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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth

Medianu, Dana - 2012

Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...

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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

Jones, Maria; Kondylis, Florence; Loeser, John; … - 2021

We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We … leverage a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season … horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70%. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes …

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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...

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New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy

Greenwood, Jeremy; Uysal, Gokce - 2021

worked in agriculture. Barely anyone did by 2000. What caused the rapid demise of agriculture in the economy? The analysis …

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Sequencing and Welfare : Labor Markets and Agriculture

Edwards, Sebastian - 2021

Recent discussions on structural adjustment and market-oriented reforms in developing and Eastern European nations have addressed the issue of the appropriate sequencing of these reforms. Most of the traditional work on the subject has concluded that the preferred sequencing should include, as a...

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Learning Through Noticing : Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming

Hanna, Rema - 2015

Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier. Given the large number of dimensions one could focus on when using a technology, people may fail to learn because they failed to notice important features of the data they possess. We conduct a...

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Gravity and Comparative Advantage : Estimation of Trade Elasticities for the Agricultural Sector

Heerman, Kari - 2018

In this paper, a structural gravity model is presented which features intra-sector heterogeneity in agricultural productivity systematically linked to land and climate characteristics. The “systematic heterogeneity” (SH) gravity model predicts that countries with similar land and climate...

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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China

Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019

The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...

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Business Cycle During Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …

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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization

Wang, Jing - 2012

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

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