productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

narrative are examined and its central contentions - that features including low productivity and limited employment generation …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …

affected the productivity and welfare of wheat farmers in China for a dataset that covers all the major rural reforms … which led to a faster growth of the incentive component of productivity. Due to random weather shocks this response did not …

When agricultural productivity improves, farmers may react by expanding farming and further encroach on forest lands … agricultural productivity can have such ambiguous effects on deforestation. We then examine the predictions of that model using … identify productivity shocks using exogenous variation in rural electrification in Brazil during 1960-2000. We show that …

productivity (TFP) growth are decomposed into outward movement in the frontier and "catching up" to the world frontier. Overall … the baseline projections, crop productivity in the ASEAN region declines by 0.4%/year. This refl ects decades of neglect …

protection policies and trade relations with the EU and productivity dynamics and their determinants. Secondly, it presents four …