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Will Digital Technologies Transform Agriculture in Developing Countries?

Deichmann, Uwe; Goyal, Aparajita; Mishra, Deepak - 2016

Mobile phones and the internet have significantly affected practically all sectors of the economy, and agriculture is …

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An Emerging Agricultural Problem in High-Performing Asian Economies

Hayami, Yūjirō - 2012

identified as a major source of the disequilibrium of world agriculture. Recently, as many high-performing economies in Asia … advantage from agriculture to manufacturing. In order to prevent this disparity from culminating in serious social and political …

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data, and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Economic Growth, Convergence, and World Food Demand and Supply

Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2017

In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food demand is per capita demand growth induced by rising...

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The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction : An Empirical Perspective

Christiaensen, Luc J.; Demery, Lionel; Kuhl, Jesper - 2012

as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture …. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely … to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect …

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Distortions to Agriculture and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Br??ckner, Markus - 2013

To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative...

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Financial Inclusion and Economic Development

Ansar, Saniya; Klapper, Leora; Singer, Dorothe - 2025

This paper reviews the impact of financial inclusion on economic development outcomes. It highlights the benefits of financial inclusion, including greater savings, improved resilience to economic shocks, and higher levels of economic empowerment, among others. It looks deeper into both the...

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Informality in the Process of Development and Growth

Loayza, Norman - 2016

"Informality" is a term used to describe the collection of firms, workers, and activities that operate outside the legal and regulatory systems. It is widespread in the majority of developing countries--in a typical developing economy, the informal sector produces about 35 percent of gross...

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On the Impact of Demographic Change on Growth, Savings, and Poverty

Ahmed, S. Amer; Cruz, Marcio José Vargas da - 2016

Changing population age structures are shaping the trajectories of development in many countries, bringing opportunities and challenges. While aging has been a matter of concern for upper-middle and high-income economies, rapid population growth is set to continue in the poorest countries over...

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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Development

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Walton, Michael - 2012

Just as equality of opportunity becomes an increasingly prominent concept in normative economics, the authors argue that it is also a relevant concept for positive models of the links between distribution and aggregate efficiency. Persuasive microeconomic evidence suggests that inequalities in...

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