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This study explores how agricultural technology affects the endogenous takeoff of an economy in Schumpeterian growth model. Due to subsistence requirement for consumption, improvement reallocates labor from agriculture industrial sector. Therefore, expands firm size sector, which determines innovation and triggers transition stagnation growth. Calibrating model data, we find that without reallo...

This paper presents a model of industrialization through rural–urban interdependence. It shows how an economy with a low cost share of industrial inputs in agricultural production and a low expenditure share of manufactured goods, together with a limited variety of industrial inputs, can be caught in a low development trap. By escaping from the trap the economy moves toward more roundabout meth...

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