that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …. In fact, agriculture in most developing countries has very low productivity relative to the rest of the economy … from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or … agricultural productivity which is robust to changes in the control variables and in the econometric methods applied …

factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth … traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …

; geographical isolation ; economic development ; agriculture ; industrialization … new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and …

; Geographical isolation ; Economic development ; Agriculture ; Industrialization … new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and …

A key feature of economic growth is the inevitable structural change across sectors: the agriculture sector shrinks … modernization of agriculture is the fundamental mechanism which forms these two hump-shaped patterns simultaneously. We construct a … emphasis on the role of capital accumulation in such a process. As workers leave the traditional agriculture sector and …

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory of … decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive as modern … agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in recessions. We estimate …