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rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of … productivity (at about 30 percent each), mainly by encouraging market-based land transfers. A sustained increase in non …
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This study analyzes the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-use change, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions using a global computable general equilibrium model, augmented by a land-use module and detailed representation of...
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costs in 2010/11 data from Rwanda. While fragmentation increases the time required to move between a household?s parcels …
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less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male counterparts. These gender differences in land productivity … services. In this paper, the authors review the evidence on productivity differences and access to resources. They discuss some … productivity of land and overall production are likely to be large …
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Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment …
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This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship, which states that land … productivity decreases as plot size increases. Existing empirical studies on the inverse plot-size productivity relationship define … land productivity or yields as self-reported production divided by plot size. This paper considers an alternative approach …
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productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …
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This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …
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dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially changes the conclusions compared to earlier analysis of the same … dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially changes the conclusions compared to earlier analysis of the same …
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