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Have Price Policies Damaged LDC Agricultural Productivity?

Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Perrin, Richard K. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines agricultural policies in 18 developing countries over the period 1961-1985. We measure productivity with both a nonparametric Malmquist index and a production function, confirming previous findings of declining agricultural productivity, but with sufficident inconsistencies...

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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...

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Habitatul semiurban şi urban în comitatul Arad în secolul al XVIII-lea

Ghita, Eugen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Transylvania and Hungary, I have pursued to dignify and quantify different aspects of the urbanization degree in the Arad County … urbanization was evident along the eighteenth century both in terms of population growth and a great social mobility and also in … eighteenth century were the basement of the future process of urbanization of Arad County in the century that has followed. …

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Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns of India

Pradhan, Kanhu Charan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied the requisite criteria in 2001 itself; mitigating concerns of inflated urbanisation. The new CTs...

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History and urban primacy : the effect of the Spanish reconquista on Muslim cities

Cuberes, David; González-Val, Rafael - 2013 - This version: February 2013

This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...

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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective

Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing countries. The diagnostic pro-poor growth toolbox has so far focused on the income dimension as well as key non-income achievements in education and health. This article...

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Climate variability and agricultural productivity in MENA region

Drine, Imed - 2011

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The severity of climate-change impacts is related to the geographic and ecological particularity of the region. The majority of countries in the MENA region belong to the hydraulic poor regions located...

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Looking at pro-poor growth from an agricultural perspective

Klasen, Stephan; Reimers, Malte - 2016

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Italy's National Recovery and Resilient Plan: Will it Narrow the North-South Productivity Gap?

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2023

We develop an endogenous growth model to simulate the long-term impact of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) on the persistent North-South productivity gap. Our model underscores public investment as a catalyst for sustained economic growth and highlights the reliance of local...

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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence

Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013

By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...

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