Agriculture in poor countries has low productivity, high employment, and negligible trade flows relative to other … sectors. These facts motivate a multi-sector, open-economy view of international productivity differences. With a quantitative … countries, especially in agriculture -- significantly contribute to international productivity differences; and (3) explicitly …

Poor countries have low labour productivity in agriculture relative to other sectors, yet predominantly consume … domestically produced food. The existing literature on cross-country agricultural and aggregate productivity differences abstracts …-Kortum trade model, I show these distortions reconcile the cross-country productivity data with observed trade flows. Through …

productivity differences. Poor countries have low labour productivity in agriculture relative to other sectors, yet predominantly … international trade to: (1) measure sectoral productivity and trade costs across countries; and (2) quantify the impact of low poor …-country food imports on international income and productivity gaps. Specifically, I expand on Yi and Zhang [2010] and modify an …