managerial practices, but it had not significant impact on both productivity and specialization. We found positive effects of the … LPP-1 also on productivity when we restricted the analysis to the sub-sample of producers specialized in the breeding …

This paper examines how the main characteristics of Argentina’s policymaking process (PMP) affect the productivity of … illustrates the (negative) impact of Argentina’s lowquality and myopic PMP equilibrium on productivity by examining two key areas …

process (PMP) and productivity. Bolivia’s PMP has shifted from a formal representative democracy to a “participative and … dominant. While reforms have increased productivity, they have failed to secure the political support necessary to assure long …-term sustainability. In contrast, counter-reforms have so far enjoyed extensive political support, but productivity has stagnated since …

This paper analyzes the political economy of productivity-related policymaking in Chile following a political … productivity at this stage; and ii) the Chilean PMP is less transparent than previously thought (Aninat et al., 2008), thus …

productivity and the realities of innovative activities in developing countries. Panel data for Argentina during the period 1998 … process innovation, which in turn explains labor productivity. The endogeneity of this three-stage process is controlled for … innovation, and both are important factors to explain labor productivity. Moreover, investing systematically in R&D implies an …

effectively improved the productivity of rice producers and breeders. However, we did not find any significant impact on other …

below trend—and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …

, follows a faster track and depends more on political power than on those policies’ potential as engines for productivity … different groups’ weight in policymaking, and the effect of the implied unbalance on aggregate productivity. Electoral weight … found that the resulting imbalance of policies damages aggregate productivity. …