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 …

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 …

unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …

) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …