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The relationship between economic growth and the environment is, and will always remain, controversial. Some see the emergence of new pollution problems, the lack of success in dealing with global warming and the still rising population in the Third World as proof positive that humans are a...
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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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from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …
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The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...
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We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population,...
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How much will the global population expand, can all these extra mouths be fed, and what is the role in this story of economic growth? We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global...
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We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population,...
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sectors, agriculture plays a specific role in economic development because of its significant share in total employment and … value added in agriculture. The special attention is devoted to the position of the agricultural sector that may positive … development and point that agriculture still dominates in terms of employment. Moreover, a significant reduction of agriculture …
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This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...
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