notion that agriculture plays key macroeconomic roles in the industrialization of developing countries by relieving saving …Using dynamic panel models with data for 62 developing countries, this paper examines whether growth in agriculture … growth in agriculture. I identify large short-run effects: An increase in growth in agriculture by one percentage point is …

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 …