AEA-sponsored session on
"Agriculture in Economywide Growth"
(New Orleans, 7 Jan. 2001)
Robert Tamura (Clemson): “Human Capital and the Switch from Agriculture to Industry”
Terry Roe (Minnesota) and Xavier Irz (Univ. of Reading, UK), "Agricultural Productivity and Economywide Growth"
Yair Mundlak (Hebrew Univ., Israel), "Agriculture and Economic Growth"
William A. Masters (Harvard/Purdue) and Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard), "Climate and Development"
Discussants:  Francesco Caselli (Harvard) and Timothy J. Kehoe (Minnesota)

AAEA-sponsored session on
"Can the Tropics Catch Up?"
(Boston, 7 Jan. 2000)
papers published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics v. 82(3, Aug.): 731-754
Jeff Sachs and John Gallup, "Agriculture, Climate and Technology"
Maggie McMillan & Will Masters, "Understanding the Political Economy of Agriculture in the Tropics"
Dan Johnson & Bob Evenson, "How Far Away is Africa?"
Channing Arndt & Melanie Bacou, "Economywide Effects of Climate Variability"