global diffusion, adoption, and productivity consequences of agricultural technology. Our empirical design uses differences …An influential hypothesis explaining the persistence of global productivity differences is that frontier technologies … frontier reduces global productivity by 50% and increases cross-country dispersion in log productivity by 15% relative to a …

This report assesses Viet Nam’s agricultural sector through the lens of the OECD Agro-food Productivity … thirty years. In the 1990s, government policies contributed to strong agricultural productivity growth, but this has since …

The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate … may be an advantage.Martin and Mitra examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and … rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural productivity is invariably low. But Martin and Mitra find that the …

general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …

households while additional secondary education has no effect on agricultural productivity. Returns to agricultural inputs are … benefit poor and rich alike. Land titling has little effect on improved agricultural productivity. More formal land titling is …