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This study estimates Climate Adjusted Total Factor Productivity (CATFP) for agriculture in Latin America and Caribbean … (LAC) countries, while also providing comparisons with several regions of the world. Climatic variability is introduced in … induces significant reductions in productivity (2.3% to 10.7%), over the 2013-2040 period. Estimated output losses due to …
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In this paper we provide firm-level evidence on the role of resource misallocation for total factor productivity … capital/labor productivity build up more capital/labor and that financial constraints play a significant role, especially in …
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This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to …
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Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change 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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productivity and the accumulation of factors of production as engines of growth in Latin America. Using the new, drastically … revised Penn World Table (PWT) and Barro-Lee datasets, the paper shows that lower and non-convergent income relative to … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The …
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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two … reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should reflect the productivity of the lower levels, which comprise the aggregate …
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Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009), this paper studies productivity dispersions in Colombian industrial establishments … manufacturing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of approximately 3-8 percent and TPF is positively correlated with exporting status … in 1991 is associated with an increase in plant productivity levels for firms that export goods. The 1990 reform that …
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efforts are affecting the dynamic relationship between environmental efficiency and economic productivity, turning it from an …
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