Technology adoption in agriculture is one of the key factors of change in rural areas of developing countries. Large-scale in-migration by groups using a more advanced production technology often triggers such change in autochthone populations. We analyse the determinants of adoption of new...

El trabajo presenta una estimación de la producción de leña en España desde 1900 hasta la actualidad y presenta por primera vez una evolución coherente de los usos del suelo tanto a escala agregada como a escala provincial. A partir de estos datos se ha podido construir también una serie...

CWe consider the factor payment effects of a transition from open access to restricted access in the resource sector in the long-run, i.e., when both labor and capital are mobile between sectors. We show that the transition benefits (harms) the factor that is initially used more (less)...

This paper investigates the properties of real commodity prices from the per- spective of policy makers seeking to conduct a successful ?scal policy in resource- rich countries. We found that policy makers face three potential challenges: (1) secular decline of real commodity prices, the...

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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

Our paper will focus on three aspects. The first one will present a historical perspective on CAP around the question” is CAP a successful story?” The second aspect will focus on the issue regarding what it means, from CAP point of view, the enlargement process. The last aspect will try to...

Food production has been one of the major concerns for Indian political climate. Major agricultural changes and policies were initiated to bring more agricultural productivity in India. Union Government also strives to bring more growth in Agricultural sector through five year plan initiations....

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...