In recent decades, the confluence of different global and domestic drivers has led to
progressive and unpredictable changes in the functioning and structure of agri-food markets …

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of the real exchange
rate (RER) on international trade, economic development and growth. We summarize the …

I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades that goes considerably
beyond the advanced, post-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between …

Since human beings entered the digital era, the economic growth mode, social structure and
environment have undergone fundamental changes. Internet industry plays a key role in …

One of the earliest and most central insights of the literature on economic development is
that development entails structural change. The countries that manage to pull out of poverty …

Project controls have traditionally been focused on after-the-fact detection of variances. This
thesis proposes a control system, the Last Planner system, that causes the realization of …

Hunger during pre‐harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and
Sub‐Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural …

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit strong unconditional
convergence in labor productivity. The article documents this at various levels of …

According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the
nonagricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, particularly in develo** …

We document a strong positive relationship between natural resource exports and
urbanization in a sample of 116 develo** nations over the period 1960–2010. In countries …