The financial surplus of agriculture has been central to theories of the role of agriculture in economic development … financial surplus of agriculture and decompose the mechanisms of surplus extraction. History and theory have, however, stressed …. We extend the MT approach by defining and measuring the real surplus of agriculture and decomposing the mechanisms of …

in education on agricultural households' income in Vietnam.The study reveals that in the context of agricultural … development in Vietnam, years of schooling has affected significantly to income of farmers. Employing the method introduced by …

improvements. We calibrate the model using detailed farm-level panel data from Vietnam, exploiting regional differences in … agricultural institutions and outcomes. We focus on south Vietnam and quantify the effect of higher measured distortions in the … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

agriculture, compared to its output share; a rapid growth in labor and land productivity; and a shift from agricultural output …-led industrialization pathway. Nevertheless, agriculture remains the largest employer in many large Asian countries, hence future structural … even in the long term, agriculture's employment share will continue to be sizable relative with the output share. To …