Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries

Public investment in infrastructure or education can increase agricultural productivity, leading to higher rural wages and higher returns to farmers. These investments also induce the reallocation of factors of production. This paper, which studies both the traditional and modern agricultural sector...

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Main Author:	Karp, Larry
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9137

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spelling	okr-10986-91372021-04-23T14:02:44Z Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries Karp, Larry World Development Report 2008 Public investment in infrastructure or education can increase agricultural productivity, leading to higher rural wages and higher returns to farmers. These investments also induce the reallocation of factors of production. This paper, which studies both the traditional and modern agricultural sector, finds that investment increases productivity in the sector where it is made, and it can also affect the other sector via adjustments of factors of production. 2012-06-26T15:39:27Z 2012-06-26T15:39:27Z 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9137 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank
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description	Public investment in infrastructure or education can increase agricultural productivity, leading to higher rural wages and higher returns to farmers. These investments also induce the reallocation of factors of production. This paper, which studies both the traditional and modern agricultural sector, finds that investment increases productivity in the sector where it is made, and it can also affect the other sector via adjustments of factors of production.
author	Karp, Larry
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title	Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries
title_short	Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries
title_full	Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries
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Income Distribution and the Allocation of Public Agricultural Investment in Developing Countries

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