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Importing inputs for climate change mitigation: The case of agricultural productivity
- Source :
- Review of International Economics. 30:34-56
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported intermediate inputs and climate. We first show that these two factors are independently important in explaining agricultural TFP - imported inputs raise agricultural TFP; and higher temperatures and rainfall shortages impede TFP growth, particularly in low-income countries (LICs). We also provide a new evidence that, within LICs, those with a higher import component of intermediate inputs seem to be more shielded from the negative impacts of weather shocks.
- Subjects :
- business.industry
Natural resource economics
05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Climate change
Economic shortage
Development
Middle income country
Agricultural economics
Climate change mitigation
Price index
Agriculture
0502 economics and business
Economics
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
050207 economics
Agricultural productivity
business
Total factor productivity
General Environmental Science
050205 econometrics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14679396 and 09657576
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Review of International Economics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....038362f51e609e5372a886a3097d2b27