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 …

/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 …

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 …

examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. We estimate the 10 …:1 spread in construction productivity among 145 countries in 2005 as a factor of 61.7-fold. Based on a general equilibrium … construction productivity gap is eliminated. Sectoral characterization of the aggregate effect of a change in construction …

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 …