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While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries...
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Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment …
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rental arrangements -- such as sharecropping -- with an inquiry into the broader productivity impacts of the land rental … to more productive producers but realization of this productivity advantage is prevented by the inefficiency of …
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US$35 millon per year or 5 percent of public spending and, by decreasing tenure security, may affect the productivity of … land use. Indeed a 2006/07 survey shows large farms underperforming small ones in yield, productivity, and intensity of …
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When contracts are incomplete, relationship-specific investments may be underprovided due to the threat of opportunistic expropriation or holdup. The authors find evidence of such underinvestment on tenanted land in rural Pakistan. Using data from households cultivating multiple plots under...
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This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has...
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This paper uses farm panel data from Indonesia to examine dynamic patterns of land use, capital investments, and wages in agriculture. The empirical analysis shows that an increase in real wages has induced the substitution of labor by machines among relatively large farmers. Large farmers tend...
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. This paper aims at assessing the impact of this rapid urbanization process on the country's sector productivity. The … econometric relation linking sector productivity to accessibility, localization, and urbanization economies, proxying variables in … urbanization economies, as well as market accessibility, are productivity-enhancing factors in Turkey, although the causation link …
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There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …
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study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing … lead to two conclusions. First, the study finds that services policy matters for the productivity of manufacturing firms …
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