This paper begins by noting that Uganda has been a public sector reform leader in Africa. It has pursued reforms … limitations and close the gaps between what Uganda's system looks like and how it functions. …

Improvements in productivity are necessary to effectively increase economic growth in the long term. The literature … emphasizes a positive correlation between firm-level innovation and productivity gains. It is unsurprising, then, that policy … makers and researchers widely acknowledge that innovation is one of the major drivers of productivity growth, and is …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

The paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in China. It also analyses the sustainability of the … country's industrial growth by estimating sectoral productivity, accounting for energy usage and emission since the start of … the market-oriented reforms in the late 1970s. The growth accounting analysis indicates that productivity is the most …