ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries
A key feature of economic development is structural transformation characterized by spatial and sectoral labor reallocation out of agriculture. Despite clear evidence of rural-urban migration flows in developing countries, recent contributions show persistently lower productivity in agriculture compared to other sectors and large disparity in agricultural productivity across space. This points to the key question of this proposal: “why do so many workers remain in agriculture”? There is a pressing need for reliable answers to this question as rural areas host large shares of the population, facing high agricultural risk and poverty incidence. Any effective poverty eradication policy, such…
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