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an 8.03% increase in real GDP per capita. While misallocation in agriculture has been studied extensively, the paper … highlights a novel source of misallocation also prevalent in other countries such as China, Myanmar, and Uzbekistan …
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This research advances the hypothesis that natural land productivity in the past, and its effect on the desirable level of cooperation in the agricultural sector, had a persistent effect on the evolution of social capital, the process of industrialization and comparative economic development...
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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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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 …
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sustainable irrigation technologies. As working population moves out of agriculture, urbanisation will gather pace. However …
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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
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sector. Despite this historical role of agriculture in economic development, both the academic and donor communities lost … agriculture is returning. This paper explores the reasons why agriculture is back on the policy agenda for donors and poor … growth. There is a sharp debate, however, between optimists and pessimists over the potential for small-scale agriculture to …
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