Documents et rapports
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Measures of fixed capital in agriculture (anglais)
Capital is a fundamental component of agricultural production, and the accumulation of capital is key to growth in agriculture and the process of development. Unfortunately, cross-country data sets on...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5472 Date du document: 1 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Butzer,Rita,Mundlak,Yair,Larson,Donald F.
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Heterogeneous technology and panel data : the case of the agricultural production function (anglais)
The paper presents empirical analysis of a panel of countries to estimate an agricultural production function using a measure of capital in agriculture absent from most studies. The authors employ a heterogeneous...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4536 Date du document: 1 février 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Butzer,Rita,Larson,Donald F.,Mundlak,Yair
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Intersectoral migration in Southeast Asia - evidence from Indonesia, Thailan, and the Philippines (anglais)
Using time series data spanning three decades, the authors examine the determinants of sectoral migration in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. They employ a principal components algorithm to address...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2949 Date du document: 31 janvier 2003 Auteur: Butzer,Rita,Mundlak,Yair,Larson,Donald F.
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The World Bank economic review 14 (2) (anglais)
Understanding patterns of economic growth: searching for hills among plateaus, mountains, and plains, by Lant Pritchett. Macroeconomic fluctuations in developing countries: some stylized facts, by Pierre-Richard...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 20954 Date du document: 31 mai 2000 Auteur: Pritchett,Lant Hayward,Agenor,Pierre-Richard,McDermott, C. John,Prasad, Eswar S.,Demirguc-Kunt,Asli,Detragiache, Enrica,Semenick Alam, Ila M.,Morrison,Andrew R.,Ravallion,Martin,Ray,Ranjan,Larson,Donald F.,Butzer,Rita,Mundlak,Yair,Crego, Al
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A new database on investment and capital for agriculture and manufacturing (anglais)
In this paper, the authors document a new database on sectoral investment and capital, providing details about sources of investment data and the method used to convert those data series into capital stock...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2013 Date du document: 30 novembre 1998 Auteur: Crego, Al,Larson,Donald F.,Butzer,Rita,Mundlak,Yair
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The determinants of agricultural production : a cross-country analysis (anglais)
In this analysis of capital's role in agricultural production, a new construction of data on capital allowed the authors to advance the cross-country study of production functions. The model reveals the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1827 Date du document: 30 septembre 1997 Auteur: Mundlak,Yair,Larson,Donald F.,Butzer, Ritz
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Agricultural development : issues, evidence, and consequences (anglais)
A comprehensive examination of data from many countries shows that in 1967-92, eighty-one percent of the world's population lived in countries where agricultural growth exceeded population growth. Moreover...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1811 Date du document: 31 août 1997 Auteur: Mundlak,Yair,Larson,Donald F.,Crego, Al
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On the intersectoral migration of agricultural labor (anglais)
Labor is the single most important factor in determining national income. As economies grow, agricultural labor declines as a share of total labor and converges to a level of 2 or 3 percent. Off-farm migration...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1425 Date du document: 28 février 1995 Auteur: Larson,Donald F.,Mundlak,Yair
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The World Bank economic review 6(3) (anglais)
Measuring the independence of central banks and its effect on policy outcomes. On the transmission of world agricultural prices. How small enterprises in Ghana have responded to adjustment. The dynamics...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17602 Date du document: 30 septembre 1992 Auteur: Cukierman, Alex,Webb, Steven B.,Neyapti,Bilin,Mundlak,Yair,Larson,Donald F.,Steel,William F.,Webster, Leila M.,Liviatan,Nissan,O'Connell, Stephen A.,Levy,Santiago,Van Wijnbergen,Sweder,Claessens, Stijn,Schmidt-Hebbel,Klaus,Corsetti,Giancarlo
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On the relevance of world agricultural prices (anglais)
This report is part of an attempt to model the global markets for primary commodities and to use these models for forecasting purposes as well as for policy analysis. In a free market, domestic prices...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS383 Date du document: 31 mars 1990 Auteur: Mundlak,Yair,Larson, Donald F.
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The World Bank economic review 4(1) (anglais)
Do African countries pay more for imports? - Yes. Investment incentives: new money, debt relief, and the critical role of conditionality in the debt crisis. Debt relief: implications of secondary market...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17593 Date du document: 31 janvier 1990 Auteur: Yeats, Alexander J.,Claessens, Stijn,Diwan,Ishac,Cohen,Daniel,Mundlak,Yair,Cavallo,Domingo F.,Domenech, Roberto,Mintz,Jack M.,Pursell,Garry