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as the degree of misallocation …
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-seeking activities in the form of bribes have aggregate effects through two channels. First, they generate misallocation of resources …-seeking drives resources away from innovation. These two channels can help in understanding why Argentina has more misallocation …
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increased, misallocation of resources toward less productive firms has persisted. These two trends have generated a widening … misallocation. The main finding is that in the absence of misallocation average earnings would be higher, and that earnings … differentials across schooling levels would widen, raising the returns to education. A no-misallocation path is constructed for the …
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This paper studies the interaction between entry barriers and idiosyncratic distortions in the context of a standard model of firm dynamics. It derives a strategy to infer entry barriers based on the combination of cross-country data on average firm size, cross-country estimates of idiosyncratic...
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. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
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thematic detail, resulting in a more precise characterization of agriculture in the region. The map reveals that agriculture is … reported national average for Nigeria (38.4 percent). Irrigated agriculture covers nearly 2.2 percent of the total area …, reaching nearly 20 percent of the cultivated land when traditional floodplain agriculture systems are included, which is above …
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Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
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This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
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