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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels
Autores: | Gollin,   Douglas; Parente,   Stephen L.; Rogerson,   Richard.
Data: | 2006-01-27
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Agriculture; Economic growth; Subsistence; Food problem; Agricultural technology; Long-run growth; Food Security and Poverty; E130; O400; O410; Q100.
Resumo: | This paper examines the effect of agricultural development on a country’s overall development and growth experience. In most poor countries, large fractions of land, labor, and other productive resources are devoted to producing food for subsistence needs. This “food problem” can delay a country’s industrial development for a long period of time, causing its per capita income to fall far behind the world leader. Once industrialization begins, this trend is reversed. The extent to which a country catches up to the leader depends primarily on factors that affect productivity in non-agricultural activities: agricultural productivity is thus largely irrelevant in the very long run. But in the short run, a country that experiences large improvements in agricultural productivity (due to, say, a Green Revolution) will experience a rapid increase in its income relative to the leaders.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

19638

http://purl.umn.edu/28416

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

Yale University&gt;Economic Growth Center&gt;Center Discussion Papers

Center Discussion Paper No. 899

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