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Chapter 73 Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth
Gollin, Douglas - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3825-3866). 2010
In most poor countries, large majorities of the population live in rural areas and earn their livelihoods primarily 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...
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The Myth of 'African Growth Tragedy' : Past, Present and Future
Zhang, Tianze - 2018
In the late 1990s, as economists looked back the development period in Africa since 1970s, they put forward the notion … “African growth tragedy” , meaning that Africa's poor growth and resulting low income is associated with low schooling …
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Colonial legacy and poverty reduction in sub- Saharan Africa
Khan, Rumman; Morrissey, Oliver; Mosley, Paul - 2016
Although growth has improved substantially in most African countries in recent years, poverty across the continent has fallen very little in the aggregate. There have been strong poverty reduction performances in some countries, but others exhibit higher poverty rates now than in 1990 despite...
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Natural Resources, Governance, and Economic Growth in Africa
Park, Bokyeong - 2017
the resource curse hypothesis apply to Africa? If so, what are its major channels? Our hypothesis is that governance is … much more important in Africa than in other regions because of non-democratic and unstable political environments, which … resources in governance and economic growth in Africa …
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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Air Pollution in African and Developed Countries : Exploring Turning Point Incomes and the Role of Democracy
Sulemana, Iddisah - 2016
countries. In particular, the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Africa remains largely unexplored. In …
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O Desenvolvimento Sustentável e a Contribuição dos Recursos Naturais para o Crescimento Econômico (Sustainable Development and Connection of Natural Resources with Economic Growth...
Oliveira, Lívio - 2013
This paper shows some relationships among economy, environment and natural resources. The concept of sustainable development is discussed, as well as its evolution along the time and the two competing approaches on this question. The paper also evaluates the connection between natural capital...
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Cities and Green Growth : A Conceptual Framework
Hammer, Stephen; Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia; Robert, Alexis; … - 2011
This report examines the current state of knowledge about green growth in cities and outlines the key research questions and protocols that will guide the OECD Green Cities programme. It builds the case for an urban green growth agenda by examining the economic and environmental conditions that...
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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
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Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth : An Asian Perspective
Timmer, Peter - 2013
No country has been able to sustain a rapid transition out of poverty without raising productivity in its agricultural sector. Despite this historical role of agriculture in economic development, both the academic and donor communities lost interest in the sector, starting in the mid-1980s. This...
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The environmental Kuznets curve from mulitple perspectives
Jaeger, William K.; Kolpin, Van - 2008
The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...
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