Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/156120 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper No. HEIDWP04-2016
Publisher: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Abstract: 
We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population, GDP, sectoral productivity growth and crop land area from 1960 to 2010. Projections from 2010 onwards show a slowdown of technological progress, and, because it is a key determinant of fertility costs, significant population growth. By 2100 global population reaches 12.4 billion and agricultural production doubles, but the land constraint does not bind because of capital investment and technological progress.
Subjects: 
Global population
Technological progress
Economic growth
Agriculture
Malthusian constraints
Land conversion
Structural estimation
JEL: 
O11
O13
J11
C53
C61
Q15
Q24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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