notion that agriculture plays key macroeconomic roles in the industrialization of developing countries by relieving saving …Using dynamic panel models with data for 62 developing countries, this paper examines whether growth in agriculture … growth in agriculture. I identify large short-run effects: An increase in growth in agriculture by one percentage point is …

effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment … were overtaken in the process of industrialization; (ii) lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with …

effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment … were overtaken in the process of industrialization; (ii) lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with …

industrialization and comparative economic development across the globe. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity …This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level … establishes that lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with more intense coope- ration and higher levels of …

that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …. In fact, agriculture in most developing countries has very low productivity relative to the rest of the economy … from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people …

that relative to the US, developing countries are the least productive in agriculture, followed by services and then …

evolution of total factor productivity in agriculture and manufacturing across history. More specifically, we build a … specialization and two different R&D technologies, one for agriculture and another for manufacturing. As a consequence, total factor … productivity in the model can increase via two different channels. First, population growth allows larger levels of specialization …

industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of … innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the …