resources’ scarcity, especially in developing countries, has caused allocation essentially among competing activities to create value. the importance of resource allocation would be more understood if we pay attention to growing complexity in societies and economic development problems they face. in the context of the national economic development literature, the notion of “key or critical sect...

Much remains to be done before agricultural trade is as liberal as world trade in manufactures. But agriculture is distorted by more than agricultural policies. In developing countries especially, farming is discouraged not only by farm protection policies in high-income countries but also by those countries' own manufacturing policies and distortions to services markets. This paper explores th...

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing import growth on agricultural productivity for a small open economy using a 2× 2 sector endogenous growth model. We show that the increase of import variety share in manufacturing, when there is no trade induced labor reallocation, drives the emergence of a sectoral productivity growth gap: productivity growth in agriculture is lower than in manuf...

The literature on the stylised facts of structural change in LDCs has been bedevilled by three problems: (i) drawing time-series inferences from cross-section results; (ii) endogeneity of the variables involved; and (iii) an inability to separate short-run from long-run effects. This paper uses time-series econometric techniques to address each of these problems investigating linkages between a...

dynamic cellular manufacturing systems,   mixed-integer non-linear programming,   production planning, manufacturing attributes   this paper presents a novel mixed-integer non-linear programming model for the design of a dynamic cellular manufacturing system (dcms) based on production planning (pp) decisions and several manufacturing attributes. such an integrated dcms model with an extensive c...

We use the rollout of a large-scale land certification program in Mexico from 1993 to 2006 to study how rural reforms establishing secure property rights determine patterns of migration, relocation of economic activity, and structural transformation. We find that certification leads higher-skilled agricultural labor to migrate, leaving behind economies less concentrated in agriculture, and with...

This paper shows how agricultural productivity shocks can generate large industrial output fluctuations in poor countries, using a static general-equilibrium model with Stone-Geary preferences. A negative shock to agricultural productivity increases food prices, which affects manufacturing output through two channels: (1) meeting subsistence requirements in the face of rising food prices causes...

In this paper, it is argued that physically abundant labor is not necessarily cheap labor. The latter depends upon the cost of food staples. Given the non-tradability of the latter, rapid growth without rapid agricultural productivity growth will make labor increasingly costly. This will make the transition to labor intensive manufacturing and the exportation of such products very difficult. Mo...

In the literature of new trade theory, most studies have dealt with industrial location by imposing an assumption of free transportation in the agricultural sector. We explicitly incorporate arbitrary transport costs in both the manufacturing and agricultural sectors into the Helpman-Krugman-Davis model of two countries and one production factor. The following results are obtained. First, we fi...