01981cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF019005 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484393826 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Garcia-Verdu, Rodrigo. Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation : The Case of Agricultural Productivity / Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, Akira Sasahara, Hans Weisfeld. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019. 1 online resource (50 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to understand sources of cross-country variations in agricultural TFP levels and its growth rates. Two factors affecting agricultural TFP are analyzed in detail - imported intermediate inputs and climate. We first show that these two factors are independently important in explaining agricultural TFP - imported inputs raise agricultural TFP; and higher temperatures and rainfall shortages impede TFP growth, particularly in low-income countries (LICs). We also provide a new evidence that, within LICs, those with a higher import component of intermediate inputs seem to be more shielded from the negative impacts of weather shocks. Mode of access: Internet Meyer-Cirkel, Alexis. Sasahara, Akira. Weisfeld, Hans. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/026 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/026/001.2019.issue-026-en.xml IMF e-Library