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Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Viet Nam agriculture
Brandt, Loren; Ayerst, Stephen; Restuccia, Diego - 2018
misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a … productivity over time. Our analysis also reveals important differences between the north and south regions. …
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Agricultural Factor Misallocation and Land Rentals in Vietnam
Ayala, Luciano - 2023
This paper explores the extent of factor misallocation in Vietnam’s cropping sector and how it is related to land rental markets. I distinguish between market transactions (i.e. those that are entitled to some form of compensation) and non-market (i.e. those that are for free and/or among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014359139
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The profits of power : land rights and agricultural investment in Ghana
Goldstein, Markus P.; Udry, Christopher - 2005
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809738
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The Profits of Power : Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana
Udry, Christopher; Goldstein, Markus - 2015
We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060623
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share
Paul, Saumik - 2020
-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829919
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Promotion of Safe Work Practices in the Agricultural Sector through Coaching as a Training Strategy in Australia
Skiba, Richard - 2020
There is currently, and historically, a high rate of workplace incidents and fatalities in the Australian Agricultural sector. This paper considers the use of coaching as a mechanism for provision of best practice safety training and development of a safety culture in Agricultural work places,...
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Governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products in Sub-Saharan Africa : does any causality exist?
Mwangi, Esther N.; Chen, Fuzhong; Njoroge, Daniel - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 10 (2021) 1, pp. 80-104
governance and net-import dependency on food and agricultural products for 25 SSA countries during the period 1995 …-2015. Principal component analysis is employed to develop a governance index based on the six worldwide governance indicators and a … a higher governance index is correlated with a lower net-import dependency ratio and the relationship is statistically …
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Distribution and Gender Effects on the Path of Economic Growth : Comparative Evidence for Developed, Semi-Industrialized, and Low-Income Agricultural Economies
Badru, Ruth - 2020
This paper applies a robust empirical methodology, which considers issues relating to cross-country heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence, to inspect the contributions of gender equality and factor income distribution to an economy's growth path. A dynamic model of aggregate demand is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830067
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Did the Black Death cause economic development by "inventing" fertility restriction?
Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2018
Voigtländer and Voth argue that the Black Death shifted England towards pastoral agriculture, increasing wages for unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this argument does not hold. Its crucial assumption is...
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Organic agriculture in least developed countries in relation to the development of the organic farming sector in Poland : the example of African xountries versus the organic sector...
Rydz-Żbikowska, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 209-230
Over the past few years, organic farming has seen a dynamic development globally. In 2015, the global market for organic products was €81.6 billion, rising to more than €90 billion in 2018 (Światowy rynek produktów ekologicznych osiągnął wartość 90 mld euro 2019). There has also been...
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