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elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to …
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This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a …-inelastic (assuming the non-farm good is non-tradable), or non-agriculture is less labor intensive relative to agriculture (assuming the … disaggregated occupational choices suggests that land restrictions increase wage employment in agriculture, but reduce it in …
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In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting income distribution, at the national and global levels. This paper analyzes how this...
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, and Uganda as case studies to explore the potential for growth in agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism in these … intensive manufactures could contribute a fraction of aggregate growth, it is agriculture, agribusiness, and services that will … contribute the lion's share because of an unprecedented convergence of technologies. Industrialized agriculture and agri …
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"This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice … modern technology. Agriculture and food systems are rapidly transforming, characterized by shifting food preferences, the … rise and growing sophistication of value chains, the increasing globalization of agriculture, and the expanding role of the …
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Current levels of investment in agricultural value chains are insufficient to achieve key development goals including ending poverty and hunger, boosting shared prosperity through more and better jobs, and better stewarding the world's natural resources by 2030. Crowding-in private investment to...
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About 80 percent of the poor households in Timor-Leste live in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture for their … livelihood. It is therefore widely acknowledged that growth in the agriculture sector is an important channel through which …
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This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...
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The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades …, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and … measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test …
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Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …
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