Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have … countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper makes new estimates of total factor productivity growth for 74 …

This study analyzes gender differences in labor productivity in the formal private sector, using data from 128 mostly … developing economies. The results reveal a sizable unconditional gap, with labor productivity being approximately 11 percent … with labor productivity than female participation in ownership, which has been the focus of most previous studies …

"This book documents frontier knowledge on the drivers of agriculture productivity to derive pragmatic policy advice … trends and long-term sources of total factor productivity growth, along with broad trends in partial factor productivity for … productivity, yet across many parts of the developing world, readily available technology is never taken up. We investigate demand …

This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002-19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …