, such as lower educational enrollment rates for girls than for boys, harm diversification by constraining the potential pool …

The paper examines the implications of lower trade barriers for sectoral diversification and macroeconomic stability in … macroeconomic stability. It shows also that diversification, in the form of equal distribution of resources between nonprimary …

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

-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

Independent States.2 The main findings are as follows: (1) productivity gains in export-oriented sectors and expansion of exports …

pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral … productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth …

productivity. Empirical results reported in this paper confirm this expectation: in low-income countries, factor productivity is … from a reduction in unsustainable fiscal deficits because of governance-related factor productivity responses that increase …

determinants that explain the variation in export diversification and complexity across 189 countries from 1962 to 2018. Our …