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Tanzania has made significant economic progress in the recent past, with per capita national income almost doubling from United States (U.S.) 230 dollars equivalent in the late-1990s to U.S. 440 dollars. This report explores the role safety nets and transfers can play in reducing poverty more...
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and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …
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"This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and … drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …
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"Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … alternative measures of productivity, the prevalence of ambiguous (countervailing signs) results, with little systematic pattern …
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with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been …
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gains in productivity and competitiveness necessary to propel economic growth to a much higher trajectory. This cannot … the rate of productivity growth of Serbia s enterprises so that better export performance and sustained growth could be …
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gains in productivity and competitiveness necessary to propel economic growth to a much higher trajectory. This cannot … the rate of productivity growth of Serbia s enterprises so that better export performance and sustained growth could be …
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, have a bearing on the country's growth agenda. The results have a bearing on the key issue of labor productivity and its …-Saharan Africa (SSA) and also to firms in China and India, but also relatively less productive. Labor productivity in Kenya had not …
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investigates differences in productivity dynamics across economic segments and attempts to derive policy recommendations to improve … the Polish economy's productivity performance. First, the authors estimate firm-level total factor productivity (TFP …), compute labor productivity indices, and analyze the main productivity patterns between 2009 and 2019. Second, the authors …
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of the market economy, improved productivity, and enhancement of competitiveness. This report focuses on three critical …
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