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Myanmar's Agriculture Sector : Unlocking the Potential for Inclusive Growth
Raitzer, David - 2015
Myanmar's agriculture sector offers substantial unexploited potential to underpin the country's inclusive economic development. With extensive land, water, and labor resources, as well as proximity to fast-growing markets, the country's agriculture has key competitive advantages. At the same...
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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …
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Growth Factors in the Agriculture of Russia
Uzun, Vasily - 2017
In 2016, record-high yields of grain, including wheat, maize, sunflower, soya and sugar-beet were received. A new record in poultry meat production was set. Despite economic recession, gross agricultural output has been growing in the past few years. Such results are attributed by many experts...
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Diversification, Dutch disease, and economic growth : options for Uganda
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2014 - This Version: November 14, 2014
different from other oil-rich countries. In five main ways, all of which suggest the need for economic diversification as an …
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Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth : Options for Uganda
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2014
different from other oil-rich countries. In five main ways, all of which suggest the need for economic diversification as an … to economic development, including human and social capital. The need for diversification can be viewed in terms of … seeking at bay. Economic diversification for the purpose of containing the preponderance of the resource-intensive industry at …
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Externalities in the Agricultural Export Sector and Economic Growth : A Developing Country Perspective
de Pineres, Sheila Amin Gutierrez - 2015
For years economists have ignored the diversity in agriculture and its potential to increase long run growth rates by enhancing a country's knowledge base. Nontraditional agriculture requires significant investments in infrastructure and knowledge: and therefore, has the potential to increase...
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Balancing natural resources and human and social capital : pathways to economic diversification in Mongolia
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2023
Economic diversification has gained significant attention as a crucial factor for sustainable development worldwide … diversification for Mongolia. By comparing Mongolia with its designated aspirational and structural peers, the paper aims to shed … light on strategies that can foster economic and societal diversification in the country. Although Mongolia possesses …
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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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The growth path of agricultural labor productivity in China : a latent growth curve model at the prefectural level
Bin, Peng; Vassallo, Marco - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-20
Given the shrinking proportion of agriculture output and the growing mobility of the labor force in China, how agricultural labor productivity develops has become an increasingly attractive topic for researchers and policy makers. This study aims to depict the development trajectory of...
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Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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