agriculture, compared to its output share; a rapid growth in labor and land productivity; and a shift from agricultural output … expedite transformation, many Asian countries will still need to promote long term productivity growth in agriculture and …

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 …. Expanding a low-productivity sector might not be unambiguously good for growth. Moreover, there are issues of reverse causation …