). The factors conducive to high per capita incomes today are good institutions, an early transition to agriculture, access …We use new data on the timing of the transition to agriculture, developed by Putterman and Trainor (2006), to test the …

determinants of this pecking order: information frictions and the quality of host country institutions. Overall, we find that in … institutions. This provides new evidence in favor of some hypotheses but contradicts others put forward in the theoretical …

The agriculture sector in Indonesia has played a significant role in poverty reduction and economic transformation … food security. The agriculture sector accounts for around one-third of employment in Indonesia. To achieve Indonesia … agriculture, land-use change, and forestry as major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Deforestation for palm oil …

The main driver of long run economic growth is total factor productivity. Among the basic sectors, namely agriculture …, industry, and services, inclusiveness of economic growth depends most importantly on agriculture. This study provides growth … projections for the Philippine agriculture based on growth in productivity differentiated by basic sector, using a computable …