. Expanding a low-productivity sector might not be unambiguously good for growth. Moreover, there are issues of reverse causation … for correlations between agricultural productivity increases and economic growth but little definitive evidence for a … productivity improvements lead to economic growth in developing countries. For countries with large interior populations and …

Turkey after 1980. The impact of industry on the growth is dated to Nicholas Kaldor (1966) in the economic literature. In … framework of Kaldor's (1966) first growth law. The result that we obtained emphasizes that industrialization has significantly …

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory of …

This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level … industrialization and comparative economic development across the globe. Exploiting exogenous sources of variations in land productivity … establishes that lower level of land productivity in the past is associated with more intense coope- ration and higher levels of …

Social protection is increasingly becoming a powerful tool for enhancing productivity and employment and is, therefore … insurance, in-kind and cash support, among others to make farming attractive, thereby increasing employment and productivity. …

Using dynamic panel models with data for 62 developing countries, this paper examines whether growth in agriculture … elicits growth in manufacturing. For identification, I use population-weighted, average temperature as an instrument for … growth in agriculture. I identify large short-run effects: An increase in growth in agriculture by one percentage point is …

productivity gap'' suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

The Agricultural Productivity Gap (APG) - the ratio of the average labor productivity in non-agriculture to that in …

The paper develops a two-sector model of economic growth, using agriculture and industry. The distinguishing feature in …-agricultural sectors imposes a constraint on the overall growth process of the economy. Using the two-sector Kaldorian framework, we … transfers in this setup. We characterize the balanced growth path for such an economy in the long run using two scenarios: a …