saturation of the services sector. Moreover, productivity growth is weakening within more labour-intensive sectors. We conclude …

Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by … that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product market reforms boost labour productivity growth. By documenting the main … channels, our results reveal that the reforms studied stimulate labour productivity growth by inducing dynamic efficiency …

performance, and a productivity-reducing structural transformation, characterized by an increasing concentration of low … productivity labour in the informal service sector. The paper suggests a move away from the dual-economy to a three … require accelerated agricultural productivity growth, a modernized informal service sector, and effective industrialization …

displaced workers are absorbed into low-productivity and informal market services (especially with employment increase in non …-business market services such as trade, transport, hotels, and accommodation activities). In contrast, if high-productivity nonmarket …

, reflecting barriers to labour mobility. The rising labour productivity (since 2009) indicates an improvement in the efficiency of …

/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …