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

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

The Macroeconomic Impacts of Digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Submarine Cables …

used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic … makes relatively optimistic assumptions, Africa is not likely to reach ""Asian tiger"" levels of growth. The results also … suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture …

output and total factor productivity (TFP) in the wake of a crisis. Second, we develop a DSGE model with financial frictions …

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … ""balanced"" one in which China''s productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an ""unbalanced"" one in which China …''s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during … indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on … productivity differ between the pre- and post-World War II periods. The pre-war period shows evidence of a productivity slowdown as …

-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia … productivity best practices over the past 16 years, and have benefited from the diffusion of Information and Communication …''s productivity performance and adoption of ICTs …