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potentially cumulate into lower levels of aggregate productivity and GDP. In this paper, we exploit data from household surveys …
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This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean … induces significant reductions in productivity (2.3% to 10.7%), over the 2013-2040 period. Estimated output losses due to …
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the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting … performance of agriculture was the result of fast growth in the use of fertilizer, increases in land productivity, and growth in … the use of capital that expanded cultivated area per worker. Higher productivity of the animal stock, fast growth in the …
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output and productivity between 2002 and 2006 as the result of rapid growth in beef and milk production and a reduction of … than doubled between 2005 and 2016, driven by productivity growth which increased by 70 percent during this period. The … factors behind increased productivity. Despite these positive developments, livestock sectors in Uruguay and Paraguay still …
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This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and … results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth … policies and external shocks on agricultural productivity; policies that do not discriminate against agricultural sectors and …
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importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … advanced countries and peer countries in other regions. The paper finds that total factor productivity is the predominant … factor: low productivity and slow productivity growth, as opposed to impediments to factor accumulation, are the key to …
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Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change...
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treated ship-to-shore gantry cranes and mobile cranes separately, in order to account for the higher productivity of the … productivity; and (iii) we introduced a binary variable for ports operating as transshipment hubs. Their associated parameters are …
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We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium search and matching model with salaried employment and informal self-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers, which are conditional on participation in training...
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