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Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Viet Nam agriculture
Brandt, Loren; Ayerst, Stephen; Restuccia, Diego - 2018
misallocation in agriculture during the period between 2006 and 2016. Despite rapid growth in agricultural productivity and a …We examine important changes in agriculture in Viet Nam in the context of ongoing structural changes in the economy. We … reallocation of factor inputs to more productive farmers, we find that misallocation across farmers remains high and increased …
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Informal sector misallocation
Lopez-Martin, Bernabe - 2016
A quantitative framework of firm dynamics is developed where the size of the informal sector is determined by financial constraints and the burden of taxation. Improving access to credit for formal sector firms increases aggregate TFP and output while reducing the size of the informal sector....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489988
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Land use restrictions, misallocation in agriculture, and aggregate productivity in Vietnam
Le, Kien - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968810
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Allocation of female talent and cross-country productivity differences
Lee, Munseob - 2023
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394245
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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture
Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …
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Achieving strong and balanced regional development in India
Joumard, Isabelle; Morgavi, Hermes; Bourrousse, Hugo - 2017
sustainable irrigation technologies. As working population moves out of agriculture, urbanisation will gather pace. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732714
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Disaggregating the resource curse : is the curse more difficult to dispel in oil states than in mineral states?
Azarchs, Timothy; Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759440
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
; geographical isolation ; economic development ; agriculture ; industrialization …
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
; Geographical isolation ; Economic development ; Agriculture ; Industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384831
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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints : a quantitative growth theoretic perspective
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2016
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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