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

regret"-- so farmers can recoup the value of an investment even if they exit farming …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm …-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors … first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical …

"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 …

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