HAVE PRICE POLICIES DAMAGED LDC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?

Democracy and Agricultural Productivity

This study attempts to empirically examine the impact of democracy on agricultural productivity by estimating a cross-country agricultural production function. In the regressions, we control the education, economic freedom, climate and geographic variables, in order to see if democracy can still explain a significant portion of the heterogeneity of agricultural productivities across countries. ...

Agricultural Productivity and Growth

This paper investigates the growth experience of one country in detail in order to enhance our understanding of important factors that a¤ect economic growth. Using a two sector model we identify the low productivity growth in the agricultural sector as the main reason for the divergence of income per capita between Turkey and its peer countries. An extended model that incorporates distortions i...

Agricultural Output and Productivity

Estimates of the employment structure, agricultural output, and agricultural labour productivity are developed for the leading European countries from 1300 to 1800. The employment estimates are developed from estimates of the total, urban, and rural populations. The output estimates are derived by positing a demand curve for agricultural goods.

Agricultural Productivity in Africa

Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other develop...

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