vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an "innovation shortfall …," usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (R&D) when compared with some high innovation … countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in R&D investment rates, usually specifying a …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment … exacerbated by strong disincentives to investment. A conservative estimate puts the efficiency losses from such arrangements in …

efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda … insecurity affect household investment decisions, focusing on trees and shrubs. The panel data estimates suggest that limited … perceived transfer rights, and the threat of expropriation, negatively affect long-term investment in Ethiopian agriculture …

The author examines empirically the link between real exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in developing … finds that it has a strong negative impact on investment, after controlling for other standard investment determinants and … real exchange rate uncertainty on investment is significantly larger in economies that are highly open and in those with …

Using panel data models, the author examines the threshold effects of the productivity of infrastructure investment in … particular, the productivity of infrastructure investment generally exhibits some network effects. When the available stock of … infrastructure is very low, investment in this sector has the same productivity as noninfrastructure investment. On the contrary …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into … productivity, including higher cereal yields, through increased fertilizer and tractor use. Higher productivity in turn leads to …