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Crop yield convergence across districts in India's poorest state
Sinha, Rishabh - 2020
Bihar, India's poorest state, witnessed impressive yield growth in each of its three principal crops over 2005-17. This …
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Playing to strength : growth strategy for small agrarian economies in Africa
Yusuf, Shahid; Kumar, Praveen - 2018
, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
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A second look at the pesticides initiative program : evidence from Senegal
Jaud, Melise; Cadot, Olivier - 2011
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Agriculture public spending and growth in Indonesia
De Armas, Enrique Blanco; Osorio, Camilo Gomez; … - 2011
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Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development : evidence from Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh
Blankespoor, Brian; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan; … - 2018
This paper studies the effects of a large reduction in transport costs on agricultural development in a developing country, with a focus on the interactions among the comparative advantage and transport costs of a location, and the transport intensity and value of a commodity. The paper extends...
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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies
Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019
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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The impact of climate change on African agriculture : a Ricardian approach
Maddison, David (contributor); Manley, Marita (contributor);  … - 2007
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Moving off the farm : land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China
Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Fang, Xia - 2011
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How prices and macroeconomic policies affect agricultural supply and the environment
Mamingi, Nlandu - 1996
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Gender differences in agricultural productivity in Côte d'Ivoire : changes in determinants and distributional composition over the past decade
Donald, Aletheia; Lawin, Gabriel; Rouanet, Léa - 2020
commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show … are the three most promising policy options to reach gender parity in agriculture in Cote d'Ivoire …
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