This paper documents the sources of the Republic of Korea's economic growth, as well as the associated productivity … growth and efficiency dynamics during its process of structural transformation from 1970 to 2016. The analysis includes land … makes significant differences in measuring the magnitudes and directions of change in sectoral total factor productivity …

"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

the various dimensions and drivers of management practices and analyzes how they are related to productivity. This is an … important topic to investigate, given the lagging levels of productivity growth in the region. If management practices can boost … management practices are associated with higher levels of productivity in all countries, and it is the impact of improved …

This paper examines the agricultural productivity-farm size relationship in the context of Bangladesh. Features of … Bangladesh's agriculture help overcome several limitations in testing the inverse farm size-productivity relationship in other … result in misleading conclusions on the farm size-productivity relationship. Empirically, the findings confirm that the farm …

general. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficiency with which public education spending is translated into … countries are wasted because of inefficiencies. Although efficiency greatly varies across countries, low-income countries are … overall facing a double issue of low levels of education expenditure and weak efficiency of public expenditure on education …