productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …

This paper documents that structural change positively contributed to labor productivity growth in Guinea during 2006 …-15. However, the contribution of structural change to productivity growth was modest (about one percentage point per year on … average), because labor moved from agriculture, the least productive sector, into other relatively low-productivity activities …

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D'Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in … reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity growth in each of the four countries, although … associated with increases in within-plant productivity. In addition, plant closure (or exit) boosted productivity more than new …

This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output …

This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … makes significant differences in measuring the magnitudes and directions of change in sectoral total factor productivity …, in the following three decades, the source of growth switched to productivity improvements, mainly engineered by the …

Transformation of Agriculture in Punjab -- Chapter 3. Growth Pattern and Economic Impacts of Wheat Productivity in Punjab Agriculture …