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reducing regional inequalities in land productivity. The convergence test allows the idiosyncratic element of productivity to …
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To overcome the constraints for policy and practice posed by limited availability of data on crop rotation, this paper applies machine learning to freely available satellite imagery to identify the rotational practices of more than 7,000 villages in Ukraine. Rotation effects estimated based on...
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The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
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This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in Cote d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …
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regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on …
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productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …
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The paper revisits the traditional transport-agricultural growth nexus. Connectivity is particularly challenging for small island developing states, such as the Comoros, where domestic markets are limited and transport and transaction costs tend to be high. Using household survey data from...
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steps to address them. This paper investigates the role of productivity shocks in borrowers' repayment choices. Using a … that negative productivity shocks lead to higher default, even when they do not induce negative returns. This relationship …
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water productivity and efficiency-and thus achieve more crop per drop. Many international organizations concerned with water … used for measuring agricultural water productivity and efficiency, and the application of these concepts and methods in … agricultural water productivity and efficiency; second, by reviewing and analyzing the available methods for assessing water …
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"This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice … trends and long-term sources of total factor productivity growth, along with broad trends in partial factor productivity for … productivity, yet across many parts of the developing world, readily available technology is never taken up. We investigate demand …
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