manufacturing firms in Uganda, which uncovers an active rental market for large machines between small firms in informal clusters … market is quantitatively important for mechanization and productivity since it provides a workaround for other market …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

rate spread, and non-performing loans. A TFP decomposition finds that most of the productivity gains are captured by a …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …