This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

This paper estimates agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) in 162 countries between 1991 and 2015 and aims to …

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity … productivity differences …

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis … productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the … Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …

Thailand stands out in international comparison as a country with a high dispersion of productivity across sectors. It … has especially low labor productivity in agriculture - a sector that employs a much larger share of the population than is … typical for a country at Thailand's level of income. This suggests large potential productivity gains from labor reallocation …