"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 …

Frequently, factors other than structural developments in technology and production efficiency drive changes in labor … productivity in advanced and emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). This paper uses a new method to extract technology … shocks that excludes these influences, resulting in lasting improvements in labor productivity. The same methodology in turn …