This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …

The “killer application” of the new framework for productivity measurement presented in this paper is the impact of … information technology (IT) on economic growth. A consensus has emerged that the remarkable behavior of IT prices provides the key … to the surge in U.S. economic growth after 1995. The relentless decline in the prices of information technology equipment …