improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed … interventions led to diversification of economic activities and better protection from shocks compared to beneficiaries of the basic …

Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a … introduction of new export products, (2) export diversification measured by an index of export-revenue concentration, and (3) on …

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 …

with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been …

to total factor productivity (TFP) for North-North and North-South trade-related knowledge diffusion, with quantity … can obtain larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male counterparts. These gender differences in land productivity … services. In this paper, the authors review the evidence on productivity differences and access to resources. They discuss some … productivity of land and overall production are likely to be large. …