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Food and agriculture : shifting landscapes for policy

Gollin, Douglas; Probst, Lilli Teresa - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 1, pp. 8-25

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Editors' introduction: The economics of the global food and agriculture system

Adam, Christopher S.; Gollin, Douglas - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 1, pp. 1-7

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Chapter 73 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth

Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3825-3866). 2010

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

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Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth

Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics

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The Green Revolution: An End of Century Perspective

Gollin, Douglas; Parente, Stephen; Evenson, Robert; … - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2002

This paper reports the results of a major study of the impact of international agricultural research, covering eleven crops in all major regions of the developing world, over the period 1960-2000. Although much of the "common wisdom" concerning the Green Revolution suggests that gains from...

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The Role of Agriculture in Development

Gollin, Douglas; Parente, Stephen; Rogerson, Richard - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2002

A longstanding question in economics is why some countries are so much richer than others. Today, for example, income per capita in the world's richest countries is roughly thirty-five times greater than it is in the world's poorest countries. Recent work argues that the proximate cause of the...

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The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels

Gollin, Douglas; Parente, Stephen L.; Rogerson, Richard - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper examines the effect of agricultural development on a country's overall development and growth experience. In most poor countries, large fractions of land, labor, and other productive resources are devoted to producing food for subsistence needs. This "food problem" can delay a...

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The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels

Gollin, Douglas; Parente, Stephen L.; Rogerson, Richard - 2004

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Land Reform

Gollin, Douglas - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004

A recent literature in development economics has focused renewed attention on land redistribution. Driven in part by political events in countries like Zimbabwe, the literature has sought to understand the economic implications of land reform. Much of this literature focuses on credit market...

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Agriculture in African development : theories and strategies

Dercon, Stefan; Gollin, Douglas - In: Annual review of resource economics 6 (2014), pp. 471-492

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