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suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … diversification away from the farm. A growing literature argues that such a rise in inequality could affect the fabric of village …
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demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine … agriculture with mechanization and active land rental markets …
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of the land frontier, and nonfarm diversification, with public policies playing a role in catalyzing all of these …
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in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced the substitution of labor by …
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Both formal, and informal loans matter in agriculture. But formal lenders provide much more in production lending, than … other governments, the Government of Pakistan subsidized the formal scheme on the grounds that lending to agriculture is a …
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A country's productive structure and competitiveness are harbingers of growth. Growth is a dynamic process based on capabilities that are difficult to define and measure across countries. This paper uses a global measure of fitness (or complexity-weighted diversity of production) as a method to...
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hurdles to long-term investment by pension funds, while also proposing international diversification and the creation of … domestic investment opportunities to help portfolio diversification and ultimately improve the delivery of secure, adequate …
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Economic development critically involves diversification and structural transformation?that is, the continued, dynamic … comparison with Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the progress has occurred through diversification along the ?extensive margin,? that …, diversification into products with longer ?quality ladders? may be a necessary first step before large gains from quality improvement …
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Traditional measures of trade diversification only take into account contemporaneous export baskets. These measures … measures of diversification by introducing a novel measure of trade diversification?latent diversification?and proposes a proxy … to measure latent diversification, which is calculated by taking into account the entire history of a country?s exports …
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This paper analyzes Zambian export patterns using a new transaction-level trade data set for the period 1999-2011. The data show that, in international comparison, Zambian exports are exceptionally concentrated (on mining products). This reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's...
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