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Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is … economy, raise efficiency by complementing other production factors, and foster innovation by dramatically reducing …
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This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...
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Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 …
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Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to …
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Using cross-country and panel regressions, the authors show that financial sector development significantly reduces undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into beneficial income and general effects. They show...
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The authors estimate the impact of global merchandise trade distortions and services regulations on agricultural value added in various countries. Using the latest versions of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and the GTAP-AGR model of the global economy, their results suggest...
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The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades …, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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, 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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This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …
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' innovation ability. The World Bank's Enterprise Survey is used first to estimate the return to firms' innovation across many … developing countries, in terms of sales and sales per worker. Then the return to innovation is compared across countries with … quality, property and patent right protection), the return to firms' innovation is lower. This suggests that poor …
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