positive impact on income per capita and productivity, however there is large heterogeneity and the gains appear more …

, such as lower educational enrollment rates for girls than for boys, harm diversification by constraining the potential pool …

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

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

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 …

supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …

productivity in the manufacturing sector, focusing on the interaction between this policy shock and firm and environment … firm productivity. Specifically, reductions in trade protectionism lead to higher levels and growth of firm productivity …, investment climate, and financial development, do not appear to influence the effect of trade liberalization on firm productivity …

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …