transition of labor out of agriculture, with manufacturing absorbing this labor in the decades prior to the 1990s, while another … group of countries saw a later transition out of agriculture, where the services sector played a large role in labor …

inherent dualism of the economy requires both targeted polices for the modern sector and traditional agriculture on marginal …

technology differences across countries. Using a unique World Bank dataset, it estimates production functions for agriculture and … agriculture in GDP decreases as countries develop. The cross-country growth literature typically estimates an aggregate …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … of the time series data and non-linear simulations of inequality-neutral growth for the developing world as a whole …

toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …

equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …

This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a …-inelastic (assuming the non-farm good is non-tradable), or non-agriculture is less labor intensive relative to agriculture (assuming the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …

Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … households to exit from agriculture or send family members to the non-farm sector. It finds that land tenure insecurity, measured … by the history of past land reallocations, discourages households from quitting agriculture. The recognition of land …