This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN)Abstract: The paper I am circulating is the product of collaboration between a Chinese colleague...
The lost decades for China in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s look remarkably like the lost decades of Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Poor land rights, weak incentives, incomplete markets and inappropriate investment portfolios.
For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries, including in sub-Saharan Africa, have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favouring their farmers with import...
