"This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice … trends and long-term sources of total factor productivity growth, along with broad trends in partial factor productivity for … productivity, yet across many parts of the developing world, readily available technology is never taken up. We investigate demand …

This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002-19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes-sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity …

conserve soil and moisture while enhancing productivity and competitiveness, and are addressing the particular concerns of … environment has been favorable. Achieving climate-smart agriculture needs an integrated approach, tackling productivity and food …

Recent research on productivity spillovers from affiliates of multinational corporations in developing and emerging … transmitting productivity spillovers. This finding has important policy implications, given that host economy governments often … dissemination, and the materialization of productivity spillovers among domestic firms. These findings are used to identify the main …

Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have … countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper makes new estimates of total factor productivity growth for 74 …

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

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

that is correlated with firm size/productivity and one that is essentially permanent to the firm. The paper reports a broad …