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 …

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy …, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world … underlying biophysical processes and technological change in agriculture affect the optimal profile of land use over the next …

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 …

Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change …

agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on agricultural fixed capital are rare. Using a … fixed capital in agriculture, based on national accounts data. The fixed capital measure differs remarkably from the Food … and Agriculture Organization's data series on tractors, which has been widely utilized as a proxy for agricultural fixed …

The information and communications technology sector has undergone a dynamic process of globalization and fragmentation …, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Trade Organization, Government of Vietnam, and Vietnamese industry …

of elderly in the world, and below-replacement fertility rates since at least the 1980s. The typology helps identify … development policy priorities for countries in different stages of demographic transition, and opportunities through globalization …