Sectoral Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction: National and Global Impacts

By M. Ivanic, Will Martin. World Development, 2017

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This paper examines the implications of productivity improvements in agriculture, industry, and services for global poverty. We find that, in poor countries, increases in agricultural productivity generally have a larger poverty-reduction effect than increases in industry or services. This differential declines as average incomes rise, partly because agriculture becomes smaller as a share of the economy, and partly because agricultural productivity growth becomes less effective in reducing poverty. The source of the poverty-reduction benefits from agricultural productivity growth changes as innovations are more widely adopted—moving from increases in producer returns to reductions in consumer prices.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty (2020, background): “2 Specifically, as described in Ivanic and Martin (2018), a combination of two datasets: the first of trade, production, and consumption for private households, governments and firms, plus parameters describing trade, production, and consumption behaviour.”
• Eyes in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Assessing Satellite‐ and Ground‐Based Approaches to Crop Yield Measurement and Analysis (2018, unknown): “…between agricultural and welfare outcomes at the household- and/or individual-level (Carletto, Corral, and Guelfi 2017; Darko et al. 2018); and (f) the comparative effects of agricultural versus non-agricultural growth on poverty reduction (Dorosh and Thurlow 2018; Ivanic and Martin 2018).”
• Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture (2019, unknown): “–2.5 –2.0 –1.5 –1.0 –0.5 Pe rc en t c ha ng e in th e US $1 .2 5 po ve rty ra te 0 0.5 1.0 190 760 Average GDP per capita 3,040 Agriculture Log (agriculture) Industry Log (industry) Services Log (services) FIGURE BO.1.1 An Increase in Agricultural Productivity Has Nearly Twice the Impact on Reducing”