This paper examines within-sector resource misallocation in three Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, and … Vietnam. The methodology accounts for measurement error in revenues and costs. The firm-level evidence suggests that … measurement error is substantial, resulting in an overestimation of misallocation by as much as 30 percent. Nevertheless, resource …

productivity improvements. Nevertheless, resource misallocation remains. Firm-level evidence from four East Asia and Pacific … countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam) suggests that resource misallocation across firms within a sector …Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the …

Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the …

This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in Cote d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and … commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show …

regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on … losses occur on all continents, but the losses can be expected to be particularly problematic in regions already experiencing …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …