This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data … the explanation that the IR between farm size and productivity is due to variation in regions as well as access to …

industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … 1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …