Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have … countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper makes new estimates of total factor productivity growth for 74 …

This background paper describes five different tools that can be used for the assessment of tax incentives by … framework for assessment. Evaluations of the various costs and benefits of tax incentives are vital for informed decision making … light on the implications of tax parameters - including targeted tax incentives - on investment returns and help understand …

. But financial incentives such as conditional cash transfers are also increasingly proposed and tested to discourage such … the theoretical justification for using such incentives, distinguishing between the price, income effects, and the nudge … effects. The growing literature about the effectiveness of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors is reviewed …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land … makes significant differences in measuring the magnitudes and directions of change in sectoral total factor productivity …

"This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice … trends and long-term sources of total factor productivity growth, along with broad trends in partial factor productivity for … productivity, yet across many parts of the developing world, readily available technology is never taken up. We investigate demand …

This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002-19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes-sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity …

conserve soil and moisture while enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and are addressing the particular concerns of … environment has been favorable. Achieving climate-smart agriculture needs an integrated approach, tackling productivity and food …

Recent research on productivity spillovers from affiliates of multinational corporations in developing and emerging … transmitting productivity spillovers. This finding has important policy implications, given that host economy governments often … dissemination, and the materialization of productivity spillovers among domestic firms. These findings are used to identify the main …