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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318954
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282579
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284033
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530812
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011478553
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas - 2013
agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091770
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The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development of Uzbekistan
Malikov, Numonjon - 2017
sectors, agriculture plays a specific role in economic development because of its significant share in total employment and … value added in agriculture. The special attention is devoted to the position of the agricultural sector that may positive … development and point that agriculture still dominates in terms of employment. Moreover, a significant reduction of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962150
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The Agricultural Wage Gap : Evidence from Brazilian Micro-Data
Alvarez, Jorge - 2018
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantly below those of other sectors … the existence of large short-term gains from reallocating workers out of agriculture and favors recently proposed Roy … economy transitioned out of agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934216
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On the Water-Energy-Food Nexus : Is there Multivariate Convergence?
Bollino, Carlo Andrea; Galeotti, Marzio - 2021
This paper provides new evidence on the convergence process of energy, water and food per capita consumption levels for 108 countries from 1971 to 2018, using a common data set, with VAR and panel data approach. We establish a new notion of multivariate sigma and beta-convergence. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237396