Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary: The Elusive Promise of Productivity -- 1. Sources of Growth in Agriculture -- Improving Agricultural Productivity: Traversing the Last Mile toward Reducing Extreme Poverty -- Poverty Reduction,...

This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice for governments and development partners on reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The analysis describes global trends and long-term sources of total factor productivity...

The dynamic consequences of machine threshing in the Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT) of Peninsular India are evaluated. Limited diffusion of threshers in the SAT of the country. Cost savings and profitability of mechanical threshing. The marked decrease in labour hiring for threshing between 1975/76 and...