Weather, fertility, and land: land curse in economic development in a unified growth theory
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Keywords
Weather; Fertility; Quality-adjusted Farmland per capita; Quality-adjusted Farmland Abundance Curse;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2012-01-03 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-DEM-2012-01-03 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2012-01-03 (Development)
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