components of growth suggests that the adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labor productivity growth mainly due to …

41 SSA countries to study the determinants of bank profitability. We find that apart from credit risk, higher returns on … credit expansion. The results also indicate moderate persistence in profitability. Causation in the Granger sense from …

, to economically and statistically significant declines in domestic output and productivity. Tariff increases also result …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …

large extent, by total factor productivity (TFP) and, to a lower extent, by physical and human capital accumulation. A …; implementing structural reforms necessary to improve productivity and efficiency of investment; attaining fiscal consolidation; and …

Italy’s deep-rooted structural problems resulted in an unsatisfactory productivity performance and a dismal growth over … decline in output is mainly accounted for by a collapse in productivity; in the medium term, employment and capital are also …

lower Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth. It also suggests that raising real GDP growth will require increases in both … investment levels and productivity. With a ratio of investment to GDP of 13 percent during the last decade, significantly higher … productivity growth and investment will be needed to sustain GDP growth rates at 5 percent or higher. The historical performance …

collapsing investment and shrinking employment. Sharp declines in productivity, reflecting in part transition-related factors …

output. We find that public capital accounts for about half of the post-1973 productivity slowdown, but only plays a minor … role in the partial recovery of labor productivity growth since the mid 1980s. The largest contribution to that (partial …

of standard Real Business Cycle models, a positive shock to the underlying rate of total factor productivity growth …