TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christensen,Garry
AU  - Christensen,Garry
TI  - Sustainable, Inclusive Agriculture Sector Growth in Armenia: Lessons from Recent Experience of Growth and Contraction 
T2  - Other Agricultural Study
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Access to Finance
KW  - Agribusiness
KW  - Agricultural Productivity
KW  - Agricultural Sector Economics
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Climate Change and Agriculture
KW  - Employment
KW  - Food Security
KW  - Foreign Direct Investment
KW  - Gender
KW  - Gender and Rural Development
KW  - Household Income
KW  - Job Creation
KW  - Poverty Reduction
KW  - Resilience
KW  - Rural Development
KW  - Rural Labor Markets
KW  - Wages
N2  - This Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for Armenia has been prepared with the aim to identify key challenges and opportunities to advance the twin goals of ending absolute poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The review of Armenia's agriculture sector forms part of this background material. Following an overview of the sector's major characteristics, the study analyses the determinants of agriculture sector growth from 2004-2015, a period characterized by both expansion and contraction. The links between this growth and employment creation are then considered, followed by review of the inclusiveness of observed sector growth. Agriculture sector resilience to exogenous shocks is also examined, at both sector and household level. The study concludes by assessing the implications of the analysis for the four original hypotheses
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/29699
ER  -