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Access to modern energy is believed to be a prerequisite for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
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Access to modern energy is believed to be a prerequisite for sustainable development, poverty alleviation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. However, theoretical models and empirical results offer conflicting evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and...
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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...
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agriculture, which is closely related to the welfare of the poor in the rural areas. Therefore, to tackle income distribution … and induce high output production, and act as a bridge connecting Thai primary agriculture with the modern sectors. Agro … agriculture, to improve the real wage of farmers, and to prevent extensive urban migration. Qualitative analysis, input …
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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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agriculture during 2005-2016. The main indicators monitored are the land fund development, area and crop production, livestock and … livestock production, number of agricultural holdings, economic accounts and prices in agriculture and agro …-environmental indicators. It was found that over time in Romanian agriculture were produced important changes both in terms of quantity and …
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How much will the global population expand, can all these extra mouths be fed, and what is the role in this story of economic growth? We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global...
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This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory … the adoption of agriculture. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, the empirical investigation demonstrates that … agriculture. Farming diffused earlier across regions characterized by intermediate levels of climatic fluctuations, with those …
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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