of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in … services have also grown significantly in terms of both value-added share and productivity. The results are robust to different …

of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity … of the labor force, as it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing and services …

the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve this, we leverage recent data releases by the Groningen Growth and … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly … poor countries during 1990-2018. We find two key results: (i) cross-country labor productivity gaps in manufacturing are …

(iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing … linkages and increasing labor productivity in small firms …

In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argues that a country's national income depends on its labor productivity, which …

productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct …-800 relative to labor. Input intensification accounts for a bit less than two thirds of the agricultural labor productivity gap …