around 3¼ percent, but growth could reach 4-5 percent with strong pro-active policies including (i) improving investment and … savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education … productivity. With policies capable of generating 5 percent growth, Mauritius could reach high-income status in 2021, 4 years …

from a take-off in domestic productivity of the magnitude observed in some of these countries. …

rates of productivity growth and, to a smaller degree, physical and human capital accumulation. Finally, economic freedom …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE PARADOX: LOW GROWTH AND HIGH INVESTMENT -- III. THE MISMEASUREMENT … STORY -- IV. LOW PRODUCTIVITY: DOES THE LEVEL OF DEBT MATTER? -- V. HIGH DEBT AND DECLINING PRODUCTIVITY: THE CASE OF …

This paper studies the relation between firms' access to finance, labor productivity and investment using Lithuanian … characteristics, removing these constraints can improve average productivity and investment of firms in Lithuania by 0.51 percent and …

applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual … Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of productivity across firms, the paper simulates the effect of optimal …