that both are simultaneously determined by countries' capabilities i.e. by countries' productivity and quality levels for …. This suggests that the main challenge for low-income countries is to raise quality and productivity in their existing …

total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5 …,010 establishments in 33 developing countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Research Data, we find that countries exhibiting greater … time-series volatility of productivity are also characterized by greater cross-sectional dispersion in productivity …

productivity and the level of technological advancement the analysis demonstrates that, in accordance with the theory …, technological superiority and higher land productivity had significant positive effects on population density but insignificant …

factor productivity, consistent with a theory where immigration increases the variety of skills available for production. We …

economic growth into capital-deepening and productivity components, to a more complex account of the growth process. In the … more complex account, capital and productivity interact, both are endogenous, and quality change in inputs and output … matters. New developments in micro-level productivity analysis are also reviewed, and the long-standing question of net versus …

: the reciprocal of the terms of trade. Cast this way, a change in the terms of trade acts as a productivity shock. Or does … then generalizing, we show that changes in the terms of trade have no first-order effect on productivity when output is …

to underestimate of the rates of growth of real GDP, real personal income, and productivity. That underestimation is … recent slowdown in measured productivity but that subject is discussed briefly …

largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for … patterns of capital flows: everything else equal, countries with faster productivity growth should invest more, and attract …

We consider a tractable model of heterogeneous production units that features endogenous entry and productivity … standard factor misallocation framework, policy distortions featuring a positive productivity elasticity of distortions imply … larger reductions in output through smaller investments in establishment productivity. A calibrated version of the model …

local governments may be a permanent decline in the growth rate of aggregate productivity and GDP …