This paper investigates the growth experience of one country in detail in order to enhance our understanding of important factors that affect 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 between 1968 and 2005. An extended model that in...

Agricultural households use assets not only for production as a source of income generation but also for protecting consumption from negative economic shocks. We show a model of household dynamic decisions on investment in agricultural productive assets under credit constraints and non-convex production technology. We test and estimate the model with data from Kagera, Tanzania in order to show ...

At the household level, livestock plays a critical economic and social role in pastoralists and at the household level, livestock plays a critical economic and social role in pastoralists and smallholder farm households. The objectives of this study were to analyze factors affecting participation in cattle fattening and its impacts on household income in Fadis district of Eastern Hararghe. Both...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, tarım arazilerinin değerinin belirlenmesinde kullanılan pazar değeri yöntemi ile gelirlerin kapitalizasyonu yönteminin incelenmesidir. Gelirlerin yöntemi, gelecekte elde edilecek değer biçme anına indirgenmesi olarak ifade edilmekte ve araziden edilen net geliri baz almaktadır. Ancak, bu yöntemin uygulanabilmesi için değerlerinden hareketle bölgeye, arazi niteliğine işletme...

The link between good health and economic prosperity is well established and can be detected in numerous measures, such as increased income, wages, efficiency, and productivity. While the link can readily be seen in descriptive statistics, it is another matter to disentangle the precise nature of the connection. It is likely that causality runs in both directions, and both health and prosperity...