This paper examines the empirical relationships between trade structure and economic growth, particularly the influence of natural resource abundance, export concentration and intra-industry trade. We test the robustness of these relationships across proxies, control variables, and estimation...

Calculations of marginal welfare effects suggest that agricultural development has had important positive affects on national welfare, especially is developing countries. Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have also benefited from agricultural growth, but non-agricultural production...

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on agricultural productivity. First, we provide estimates of growth in agriculture’s total factor productivity (TFP) for a panel of countries using a translog-production function. In contrast to most of the existing literature, the...