output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the … productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research …

technologies may be necessary to ensure technology diffusion throughout communities. This information may be taken as an indicator … in the context of land management. The limited impact of agriculture and environment focused organizations on technology … adoption is discouraging though may be linked to the limited profitability of technology adoption in the short-run. …

household welfare measures to human capital and household access to infrastructure and technology, while controlling for other … technology to past public investments in these factors. As in the Asian studies, the growth effects (measured as per capita … insufficient public investment in all kinds of regions. Nevertheless, the results show that there is opportunity to improve on the …

Determining the causality between health measures and both income and labor productivity remains an ongoing challenge … the link between health investments and agricultural productivity. The evidence from some micro-level studies suggests … that inexpensive health interventions can have a very large impact on labor productivity. The macro-level evidence at the …