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Inclusive Growth Through Public and Private Participation : A Must in Agricultural Sector in India

Jacob, Pearly - 2013

answer to everything, the need is more than the capital investment. This paper is an effort to propose the possibilities of … PPP in the field of agriculture …

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Growth complementarity between agriculture and industry : evidence from a panel of developing countries

Souza, João Paulo A. de - 2014

Using dynamic panel models with data for 62 developing countries, this paper examines whether growth in agriculture … growth in agriculture. I identify large short-run effects: An increase in growth in agriculture by one percentage point is … imply sizable long-run effects of permanent increases in growth in agriculture. Extensions of the empirical model suggest …

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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009

explores various specifications of decompositions and various forecasting experiments. The result from these horse-races is … for richer forecasting specifications, the paper shows, using Bayesian model averaging techniques (BMA), that the …

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Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2009

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The Impact of Weather Variability on Economic Growth in Kenya

Nyangena, Obed - 2018

The effect of weather and climate variability on economic performance is ordinarily estimated using simulation models that predict the magnitude of long-term implications under normal and adverse scenarios. These models do not provide information that can enable policy within the short-run....

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Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment

Barrett, Christopher B.; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Pham, Trinh - 2021

This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and … exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes …

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Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment

Barrett, Christopher B.; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Pham, Trinh - 2021

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Toward a Microeconomics of Growth

Burgess, Robin - 2016

What drives growth at the microeconomic level? Burgess and Venables divide the factors that determine a location's growth performance into two groups, 1st advantage and 2nd advantage. The term 1st advantage refers to the conditions that provide the environment in which new activities can be...

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Temperature and Economic Growth : New Evidence from Total Factor Productivity

Zhang, Peng - 2015

Understanding the relationship between temperature and economic growth is a critical component in designing optimal climate policies. This paper provides the first study that documents the relationship between daily temperature and total factor productivity (TFP). Using detailed firm-level...

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Extremely harsh winters threaten the livelihood of Mongolia's herders

Lehmann-Uschner, Anna Katharina; Krähnert, Kati - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 40, pp. 369-375

Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their prosperity. This study examines the impact of the unusually cold, snowy winter of 2009/2010 on the livestock of Mongolian households. Livestock represents on average more than 90...

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