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Author : Alain De Janvry
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Technological Innovations in Latin American Agriculture written by Alain De Janvry and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Dutz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464812233
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book The Jobs of Tomorrow written by Mark A. Dutz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While adoption of new technologies is understood to enhance long-term growth and average per-capita incomes, its impact on lower-skilled workers is more complex and merits clarification. Concerns abound that advanced technologies developed in high-income countries would inexorably lead to job losses of lower-skilled, less well-off workers and exacerbate inequality. Conversely, there are countervailing concerns that policies intended to protect jobs from technology advancement would themselves stultify progress and depress productivity. This book squarely addresses both sets of concerns with new research showing that adoption of digital technologies offers a pathway to more inclusive growth by increasing adopting firms’ outputs, with the jobs-enhancing impact of technology adoption assisted by growth-enhancing policies that foster sizable output expansion. The research reported here demonstrates with economic theory and data from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico that lower-skilled workers can benefit from adoption of productivity-enhancing technologies biased towards skilled workers, and often do. The inclusive jobs outcomes arise when the effects of increased productivity and expanding output overcome the substitution of workers for technology. While the substitution effect replaces some lower-skilled workers with new technology and more highly-skilled labor, the output effect can lead to an increase in the total number of jobs for less-skilled workers. Critically, output can increase sufficiently to increase jobs across all tasks and skill types within adopting firms, including jobs for lower-skilled workers, as long as lower-skilled task content remains complementary to new technologies and related occupations are not completely automated and replaced by machines. It is this channel for inclusive growth that underlies the power of pro-competitive enabling policies and institutions—such as regulations encouraging firms to compete and policies supporting the development of skills that technology augments rather than replaces—to ensure that the positive impact of technology adoption on productivity and lower-skilled workers is realized.
Author : Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349581518
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Inter-American Development Bank and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences in firm characteristics, behaviors, and strategies. By showcasing this remarkable heterogeneity, this collection challenges regional policymakers to look beyond one-size-fits-all solutions and create balanced policy mixes tailored to distinct firm needs. This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license.
Author : Organization of American States. Unit of Sustainable Development and Environment
Publisher : Organization of American States
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Source Book of Alternative Technologies for Freshwater Augmentation in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Organization of American States. Unit of Sustainable Development and Environment and published by Organization of American States. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge M. Katz
Publisher : United Nations Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Structural Reforms, Productivity and Technological Change in Latin America written by Jorge M. Katz and published by United Nations Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last ten to fifteen years, profound structural reforms have moved Latin America and the Caribbean from closed, state-dominated economies to ones that are more market-oriented and open. Policymakers expected that these changes would speed up growth. This book is part of a multi-year project to determine whether these expectation have been fulfilled. Focusing on technological change, the impact of the reforms on the process of innovation is examined. It notes that the development process is proving to be highly heterogenous across industries, regions and firms and can be described as strongly inequitable. This differentiation that has emerged has implications for job creation, trade balance, and the role of small and medium sized firms. This ultimately suggests, amongst other things, the need for policies to better spread the use of new technologies.
Author : Stephen Sherwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315440075
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Food, Agriculture and Social Change written by Stephen Sherwood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.
Author : Beatriz Armendariz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262337878
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Contemporary Latin America written by Beatriz Armendariz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-05 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of Latin America's economy focusing on development, covering the colonial roots of inequality, boom and bust cycles, labor markets, and fiscal and monetary policy. Latin America is richly endowed with natural resources, fertile land, and vibrant cultures. Yet the region remains much poorer than its neighbors to the north. Most Latin American countries have not achieved standards of living and stable institutions comparable to those found in developed countries, have experienced repeated boom-bust cycles, and remain heavily reliant on primary commodities. This book studies the historical roots of Latin America's contemporary economic and social development, focusing on poverty and income inequality dating back to colonial times. It addresses today's legacies of the market-friendly reforms that took hold in the 1980s and 1990s by examining successful stabilizations and homemade monetary and fiscal institutional reforms. It offers a detailed analysis of trade and financial liberalization, twenty–first century-growth, and the decline in poverty and income inequality. Finally, the book offers an overall analysis of inclusive growth policies for development—including gender issues and the informal sector—and the challenges that lie ahead for the region, with special attention to pressing demands by the vibrant and vocal middle class, youth unemployment, and indigenous populations.
Author : International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (Project)
Publisher : Iaastd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Report written by International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (Project) and published by Iaastd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science, and Technology for Development (IAASTD) looks realistically at how we could effectively use agriculture/AKST to help us meet development and sustainability goals. An unprecedented three-year collaborative effort, the IAASTD involved more than 400 authors in 110 countries and cost more than $11 million. It reports on the advances and setbacks of the past fifty years and offers options for the next fifty years. The results of the project are contained in seven reports: a Global Report, five regional Sub-Global Assessments, and a Synthesis Report. The Global Report gives the key findings of the Assessment, and the five Sub-Global Assessments address regional challenges. The volumes present options for action. All of the reports have been extensively peer-reviewed by governments and experts and all have been approved by a panel of participating governments. The Sub-Global Assessments all utilize a similar and consistent framework: examining and reporting on the impacts of AKST on hunger, poverty, nutrition, human health, and environmental/social sustainability. The five Sub-Global Assessments cover the following regions: Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) East and South Asia and the Pacific (ESAP) Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) North America and Europe (NAE) Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Author : Martin E Pineiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000242129
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Technical Change And Social Conflict In Agriculture written by Martin E Pineiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the intellectual production of the first phase of the Cooperative Research Project on Agricultural Technology in Latin America (PROTAAL) and the most relevant papers presented by invitees at a meeting held in San Jose, Costa Rica in September 1981.
Author : Lee R. Martin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452901791
Total Pages : 1073 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature written by Lee R. Martin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book Research Relations Between the Inter-american Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (iica) and United States Institutions L. Harlan Davis written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Agricultural Technology Transfer Between Latin America and the Caribbean written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon R. Conway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134063024
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book After the Green Revolution written by Gordon R. Conway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolutionary' era: farmers with small or marginal holdings have benefited less than wealthier farmers; intensive mono-cropping has made production more susceptible to environmental stresses and shocks. Now there is evidence of diminishing returns from intensive and intensively chemical agricultural production. What is needed is a new approach, equally revolutionary, but different in its ideas and style. The authors set out what they mean by 'sustainable' agriculture in the new era and look at the effects of international economic restraints and of national policies on the kind of development they see as necessary. They chart a path for sustainable livelihoods for Third World farmers enmeshed by forces outside their control. They describe methods of evaluating and resolving the tough trade-offs all levels of intervention, from international trade down to the individual farm. This book cannot provide all the answers, but it does indicate what international conditions we need to be aware of, what national policies we need to advocate and what approaches at the local level we need to adopt to ensure the goal of agricultural sustainability. Originally published in 1990
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Publisher : IICA
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Comments on "an Induced Innovation Interpretion of Technical Change in Agriculture in Developed Countries" written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book The Development of Policies for the Development of Agrobiotechnologies in IICA Member Countries written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 : 9292481398
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (924 download)
Download or read book International Meeting of FORAGRO: institutional innovations for agriculture with knowledge in the Americas in the 21s century: summary written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Dynamics of Agricultural Research Organization Lation America written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
