&D investments in Europe. Different panel models are applied on 16 European countries, by employing productivity and investment data …While higher effort in research is advocated for agriculture, there continues to be a lack of measurement of its impact … in economic terms, at least in Europe. This paper seeks to assess the economic impact of public agricultural R …

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 …