) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield … much larger reductions in emissions than those that reduce emission intensities by increasing overall productivity because …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …

Policies aimed at raising agricultural productivity have been a centerpiece in the fight against global poverty. Their …

productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …

estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture …. Reallocation of workers from agriculture to industry and services has contributed 1.2 percentage points to productivity growth in …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …

Melitz (2003) demonstrates that greater trade openness raises industry productivity via a selection effect and via a … static and dynamic efficiency gains. That is, although freer trade improves industry productivity in a level sense, it harms … endogenises the growth rate of industry productivity and we show that liberalisation slows growth …

firm framework. The paper also shows how the aggregate industry productivity growth generated by the reallocations …, the paper provides an extension of Krugman's (1980) trade model that incorporates firm level productivity differences …. Firms with different productivity levels coexist in an industry because each firm faces initial uncertainty concerning its …