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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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agriculture to create dire economic conditions that facilitated farm suicides in some Indian states. …
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This research examines the climatic origins of the diffusion of Neolithic agriculture across countries and … of agriculture. …
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from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357863
effects of cooperation on the intensive margin of agriculture, low land productivity countries lagged behind during the … important in the process of industrialization, the transition from agriculture to industry among unfavorable land endowment …
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agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory of … decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive as modern … agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in recessions. We estimate …
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How can foreign aid support economic growth in Africa? This paper presents a geographically indexed general equilibrium model that enables green revolution-focused macroeconomic analysis in low-income African settings. The model is flexible to parameterization and highlights the role of...
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This paper explores the extent of factor misallocation in Vietnam’s cropping sector and how it is related to land …
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