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as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …
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output and total factor productivity (TFP) in the wake of a crisis. Second, we develop a DSGE model with financial frictions …
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would themselves stultify progress and depress productivity. This book squarely addresses both sets of concerns with new …, Colombia and Mexico that lower-skilled workers can benefit from adoption of productivity-enhancing technologies biased towards … skilled workers, and often do. The inclusive jobs outcomes arise when the effects of increased productivity and expanding …
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The urgency of effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the reliance of many low-income countries on imports of medical products, requires new approaches to regulation of these products. The challenge will be particularly acute for the new tests to identify infection, drugs to alleviate...
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This paper examines the agricultural productivity-farm size relationship in the context of Bangladesh. Features of … Bangladesh's agriculture help overcome several limitations in testing the inverse farm size-productivity relationship in other … result in misleading conclusions on the farm size-productivity relationship. Empirically, the findings confirm that the farm …
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This paper addresses the identification of low-frequency macroeconomic shocks, such as technology, in Structural Vector Autoregressions. Whilst identification issues with long-run restricted VARs are well documented, the recent attempt to overcome said issues using the Max-Share approach of...
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productivity is positively associated with the within-firm variance and the average level of technology sophistication. Development … productivity and one-fifth of the agricultural versus non-agricultural gap in cross-country differences in firm productivity …
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productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …
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