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In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca … found in relatively smaller plots, and a pronounced inverse-size productivity relation exists. We could identify some of the …
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This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We …
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crops. Agricultural productivity growth facilitated labour exit and savings transfers, which helped jumpstart industrial … accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
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misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … productivity over time. Our analysis also reveals important differences between the north and south regions. …
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This paper examines industrialization trends in developing countries. It uses the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic … countries for the period 1990-2018. Until the early 2000s de-industrialization was widespread, but then the trend reversed …. Regressions that control for income and demographic trends suggest significant employment industrialization in developing Asia and …
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This paper examines the theoretical and empirical evidence for the hypothesis that manufacturing is the main engine of growth in developing countries. The paper opens with an overview of the main arguments supporting the engine of growth hypothesis and then examines each of these arguments using...
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to increase productivity and quality; reduce costs; meet standards; improve access to finance, markets, and information …
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-protected import substitution industrialization strategy of 1960-83 to an outward liberalized strategy during 1984-2000, and since 2001 … the form of industrial clusters. Patterns of labour productivity and wages within Ghana's industrial sector indicate the …
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Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to better diagnosis and to better-designed...
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Despite more than two decades of economic integration efforts, levels of spatial development inequality remain high within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Owing to persistent delays in the implementation of the SADC integration agenda, infrastructure connectivity is still...
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