Crop Selection and International Differences in Aggregate Agricultural Productivity /

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a macroeconomic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alvarez, Jorge
Other Authors: Berg, Claudia
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/179
Online Access:Full text available on IMF