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focus on agriculture, food processing and energy generation from byproducts. It is based on official statistics collected … from national and international institutions (national statistical office, ministry of agriculture and related research … processing sector and NGOs supporting agriculture and food processing. A top-down approach was followed starting with national …
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of structural transformation and population-level nutrition outcomes is essential for contextualizing agriculture …
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Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …
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We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time variation in the development and diffusion of HYVs of 10 major crops, spatial variation in agro-climatically suitability for growing them, and a differences-in-differences...
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Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...
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agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …
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Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …
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