. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania … that farmers overestimate plot-level outcomes, or they forget some of their more marginal plots due to longer recall …

the season. The study finds that the recall method overestimates farm labor per person per plot by about 10 percent …, controlling for observable differences at baseline. Recall bias in farm labor per person per plot is accounted for by the fact … method underestimates farm labor per plot and per household and overestimates the labor productivity of household …

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 … is large, albeit declining over time. Private domestic firms and firms with higher productivity face larger distortions …

This paper examines within-sector resource misallocation in three Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, and … measurement error is substantial, resulting in an overestimation of misallocation by as much as 30 percent. Nevertheless, resource … misallocation across firms within a sector remains large, albeit declining. The findings imply that there are considerable potential …

-seeking activities in the form of bribes have aggregate effects through two channels. First, they generate misallocation of resources … those that succeed at rent-seeking. Second, such activities affect the allocation of resources within firms because rent …-seeking drives resources away from innovation. These two channels can help in understanding why Argentina has more misallocation …

thematic detail, resulting in a more precise characterization of agriculture in the region. The map reveals that agriculture is … reported national average for Nigeria (38.4 percent). Irrigated agriculture covers nearly 2.2 percent of the total area …, reaching nearly 20 percent of the cultivated land when traditional floodplain agriculture systems are included, which is above …