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general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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multiregional input-output tables and disaggregated employment data, we decompose change in labor productivity growth for seven … productivity of the different factors at the regional level. In this way, we present a new perspective for recent causes of China …
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foreign investments on the productivity of domestic firms. Using pooled regression analysis with fixed effects for the period … 2002 – 2005, we find that: (a) foreign investments have significant positive effect on productivity of domestic firms … are controlled for in the cross-section productivity regression, the relationship between the share of foreign technical …
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We examine the impact of the values respect for others and responsibility on productivity and the accumulation of … is substantial. Respect for others works primarily through productivity whereas responsibility is important to investment …
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1979. New data presented here show that Brazilian industry achieved significant labour productivity growth during the post … industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …
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The present study constructs a decision support system to determine the best seeding rate out of a group of seeding rates applied in the field. The DSS has been built receives the field data as inputs, and then apply split plot algorithms of (Gomez & Gomez, 1984) to find the results. These...
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The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where … sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry … show, in particular, that sectoral differences in productivity growth in Europe are related to cross-industry differences …
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for improved productivity performance in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEE) at the macro and industry level …
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This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although … investment in ICT capital has strongly increased, total factor productivity (TFP) growth has made the largest contribution to …
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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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