analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic activity (agriculture, manufacturing and …

the next five years. The reasons behind this slowdown differ across the region. Lower productivity growth drives the … productivity growth is key to unlocking the region’s higher growth potential. For oil importers, raising physical capital …

Total factor productivity growth was stagnant or slowing in many advanced countries even prior to the crisis. This … paper documents sector-level productivity patterns across advanced economies prior to the crisis and examines the role of … driving productivity differences across sectors and countries. Since productivity payoffs of reforms evolve over time, we also …

suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. … used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic …

transformation of output and exports, as well as indicators of their quality and sophistication. The move from agriculture to a wide …

Thailand stands out in international comparison as a country with a high dispersion of productivity across sectors. It … has especially low labor productivity in agriculture—a sector that employs a much larger share of the population than is … typical for a country at Thailand’s level of income. This suggests large potential productivity gains from labor …