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misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … reallocation of factor inputs to more productive farmers, we find that misallocation across farmers remains high and increased …
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A quantitative framework of firm dynamics is developed where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and the burden of taxation. Improving access to credit for formal sector firms increases aggregate TFP and output while reducing the size of the informal sector....
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leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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We study the impact of incomplete consumption risk-sharing on land misallocation in rural economies. We develop a …' choices, leading them away from maximizing expected incomes and resulting in land misallocation. Using the latest ICRISAT …
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The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general …
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The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...
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We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population,...
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agriculture during 2005-2016. The main indicators monitored are the land fund development, area and crop production, livestock and … livestock production, number of agricultural holdings, economic accounts and prices in agriculture and agro …-environmental indicators. It was found that over time in Romanian agriculture were produced important changes both in terms of quantity and …
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How much will the global population expand, can all these extra mouths be fed, and what is the role in this story of economic growth? We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global...
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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory … the adoption of agriculture. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, the empirical investigation demonstrates that … agriculture. Farming diffused earlier across regions characterized by intermediate levels of climatic fluctuations, with those …
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