in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest …

This paper advances understanding of the relationship between tax policy and productivity, taking advantage of unique … data from the Dominican Republic to document a significant negative impact of tax regulations on total factor productivity … (TFP). It begins by estimating productivity using administrative records provided by the tax authorities. Then, it …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …

potentially cumulate into lower levels of aggregate productivity and GDP. In this paper, we exploit data from household surveys …

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 …

in export mix and by firm size. In general, export mix changes are associated with improvements on productivity, although … export mix are more important for firm growth in large firms, but not in terms of productivity. In contrast, SMEs can have a … higher potential for productivity improvement through export product churning but this does not translate necessarily in …

average farm sizes. These cross-country differences play a determining role in productivity of farms and the distribution of … agricultural regions. Low labor productivity in small farms appears as a key explanatory factor. …