equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty … growth, and poverty is less straightforward than simple models of the resource curse suggest. Taking Ghana as a stylized …

protection policies and trade relations with the EU and productivity dynamics and their determinants. Secondly, it presents four … scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …

Through a comparison of sector cases in Mozambique and Ghana, the paper analyzes why and how African states engage in … Ghana that illustrate variation in the four factors and thus different economic outcomes. Specifically, cocoa, export is a …

Farming in Brazil is historically one of the main bases of the country's economy. In northeastern Brazil, agriculture … has an important role in the regional economy, with the aim of this study to evaluate the recent situation of agriculture … potential barriers to the development of agriculture in this region, including environmental issues, disability in logistics …

used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …

dramatischen Produktionseinbrüchen insbesondere in der Landwirtschaft einher. Der insgesamt negative Trend ist nach wie vor … Schlussfolgerungen für die Ausgestaltung der Agrarpolitik zu ziehen. Die Ergebnisse lassen darauf schließen, dass unvorteilhafte …