productivity is positively associated with the within-firm variance and the average level of technology sophistication. Development … productivity and one-fifth of the agricultural versus non-agricultural gap in cross-country differences in firm productivity …

This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …

-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …

Labor productivity in EMDEs is just under one-fifth of the advanced economy average, while in LICs, it is just 2 … percent. Average productivity growth in EMDEs has picked up rapidly since 2000, renewing interest in the convergence … hypothesis, which predicts that economies with low productivity should close productivity gaps over time. However, the average …

reducing regional inequalities in land productivity. The convergence test allows the idiosyncratic element of productivity to …

compares the level of labor productivity in 22 upper-middle-income countries and 11 high-income countries for which comparable … data are available. The results show that labor productivity in the upper-middle-income countries is about 57.5 percent … lower than in the high-income countries. The productivity difference is robust and holds for firms of different sizes and …