There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market …-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates of New Zealand’s productivity growth measured either in terms of … GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …