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aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …
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Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings …
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productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in …
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The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a decentralized and competitive research system in the...
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. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …
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Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …
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.S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings … a state's productivity. Third, the impacts of THI load shock and Oury index shock variables (deviations from historical … norm fluctuations) on productivity are more robust than the level of THI and Oury index variables across specifications …
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Crop diseases and how they are managed can have a large impact on agricultural productivity. This paper discusses the … effects on agricultural productivity of Verticillium dahliae, a soil borne fungus that is introduced to the soil via infested … important implications for agricultural productivity …
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This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the …
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