assistance to agriculture in Africa has a twofold purpose. First, it is a pilot for the proposed IEG study on Bank …-wide assistance in agriculture scheduled for fiscal year 2009. Second, the review provides timely insight into specific issues … relevant to the Bank's renewed focus on agriculture in Africa, especially as expressed in the Africa Action Plan. The central …

's development is the underperformance of the critical agriculture sector, which has been neglected both by donors and governments … over the past two decades. The sector faces a variety of constraints that are particular to agriculture in Africa and make … Desenvolvimento (COED) -- Evaluation Snapshot in Selected Languages -- 1 Introduction -- The Role of Agriculture in Africa -- Study …

Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … of poor countries. We present new evidence on the channels through which industrialization can help poor countries close … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …