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of structural transformation and population-level nutrition outcomes is essential for contextualizing agriculture …
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influence of the mix of expenditures related to agriculture on net income generation, using data for 19 Latin American and … positively impacts agriculture's performance. More importantly, and of greater practical economic significance, increasing the …
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According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...
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In the European Union (EU) periurban agriculture is under the same agri-environmental policy regime designed for … general agriculture. We argue that the specific needs of periurban agriculture may justify ad hoc agri-environmental policy … agriculture measures in this area. The mismatch between the low uptake rate and the high social benefits generated by the four …
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The need to enhance food security while reducing poverty along with the growing threat imposed by climate change clearly reveal that it is imperative to accelerate agricultural productivity growth. This paper estimates micro-level production models to identify the major factors that have...
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This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...
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