This short note provides a framework for looking at public sector governance and productivity improvements. It argues … that the role of government in enhancing productivity growth is two-fold. First, government should provide an environment … that is conducive in improving total factor productivity in private sector production. Second, government should work to …

This paper examines the total factor productivity performance (TFP) of the Philippines in the 1990s in order to provide … a picture of the extent of the productivity concern that needs to be addressed in the Medium-Term National Action Agenda … for Productivity, 2000-2004. The findings show that while the average TFP growth of the country has improved in the 1990s …

productivity of the industrial sector. This policy environment comprises three layers: 1) the trade policy that determines the …

In 1996, a blueprint on the integrated approach towards improving total factor productivity (TFP) in the Philippines … was formulated in a document called the National Action Agenda for Productivity: 1997-1998 (NAAP). NAAP achieved modest … accomplishments. Thus, there is a need to continue and build on its maiden achievements in order to remove productivity …

productivity and skill production in this country. This paper reviews the issues and research gaps in the human resource dimension … of the productivity puzzle. After reviewing the main issues in this area, the paper proceeded with augmenting the list of …

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

extent to which the knowledge production of a multilateral development bank can reach its beneficiaries. We find that IDB …

Aggregate labor productivity (ALP) growth - i.e., growth of output per unit of labor - may be decomposed into additive … contributions due to within-sector productivity growth effect, dynamic structural reallocation effect (Baumol effect), and static …