the catch-up in labor utilization productivity and use independent demographic projections and other considerations to … make reasonable assumptions about labor productivity and utilization growth in the future. It uses a simple growth …-accounting framework, and discusses the trends in labor utilization and productivity per hour in the past. The paper also describes the …

Abstract What do climate change, global financial crises, pandemics, and fragility and conflict have in common? They …

climate change. The idea is to create a “Green Fund†with the capacity to raise resources on a scale commensurate with the … up their climate change responses without delay. To achieve the necessary scale, the Green Fund would use an initial … could be channeled through existing climate funds, or via newly created special-purpose disbursement facilities. We are not …

This Selected Issues paper focuses on financing constraints and productivity in Estonia. The paper examines two …-level total factor productivity (TFP)? These questions are particularly important in the current environment, in which credit …

This Selected Issues paper explores the question of what kind of structural policies could boost productivity growth in … trade openness are necessary for productivity growth, they are not sufficient. SMICs need to improve the quality of their …