Resources, agriculture, and economic growth in economies in transition
Author: Thorvaldur Gylfason
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9788086288314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thorvaldur Gylfason
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9788086288314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2008-06-05
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780821374207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the first in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Latin America) that not only fill that void for recent years but extend the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time--and provide analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia that are transitioning away from central planning. The book includes country and subregional studies of the ten transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 or 2007, of seven other large member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and of Turkey. Together these countries comprise over 90 percent of the Europe and Central Asia region's population and GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but price distortions remain. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for evaluating policy options in the years ahead.
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007-10-15
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780821368091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
Author: Ayal Kimhi
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781607410294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about the allocation of natural and human resources in the agricultural sector of both developed, developing and transition economies. Extensive search for the sources of economic growth have lead economists to comprehend that sustainable growth requires efficient allocation of natural resources, complemented by high levels of human resources, such as knowledge, management and governance. This conception is particularly applicable in the context of agriculture productivity, which has been a major contributor to economic growth, world-wide. This is the theme of this book that brings together recent findings of leading international scholars of agricultural economics on the management of natural and human resources. It addresses a variety of problems that are related to the above issues and are common to many countries.
Author: Herman McDowell Southworth
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell U.P
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Composite work on the relationship of rural development to economic growth, with particular reference to developing countries - covers economic implications of agrarian reform, land tenure, traditional social structures, human resources development, marketing, trade, price policy, taxation, agricultural policy, etc. Map, references and bibliographys.
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 0821376667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume in the 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives' series focus on distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective.
Author: C. Peter Timmer
Publisher: A E I Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph, A World without Agriculture, was the 2007 Henry Wendt Lecture, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. on October 30, 2007. The Wendt Lecture is delivered annually by a scholar who has made major contributions to our understanding of the modern phenomenon of globalization and its consequences for social welfare, government policy, and the expansion of liberal political institutions.
Author: Vicente Pinilla
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 3319660209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world’s peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors. The contributors to this volume proffer an understanding of the processes of agricultural transformations and their interaction with the overall economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Looking at the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – the onset of modern economic growth – the book studies the relationship between agriculture and other economic sectors, exploring the use of resources (land, labour, capital) and the influence of institutional and technological factors in the long-run performance of agricultural activities. Pinilla and Willebald challenge the notion that agriculture played a negligible role in promoting economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the impulse towards industrialization in the developing world was more impactful.
Author: Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0821371282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.
Author: K. O. Fugile
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781845939229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Increasing food prices have renewed concerns about long-term agricultural demand and supply in the global economy. This book looks at results, methods, and data on international agricultural productivity for a better understanding of long-run trends and the policies that determine them. By presenting an international assessment of total factor productivity growth in agriculture, including up-to-date empirical analysis for developed and developing countries and regions, it provides a response to the rising global scarcity of agricultural production. It is essential reading for researchers, poli.