productivity angle.In looking at a set of high-growth economies of the past, the Growth Report 2008 identified common … total factor productivity to growth is on a declining path.The structural shift of the Ghanaian economy into services and … marginally contributes to labor productivity growth.Second, concentration of economic activity in natural resources increase …

capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates … are affected by the assumed levels of reconstruction assistance, repatriation of refugees, and productivity improvements …

India has achieved much in the last 25 years. Since the early 1990s, when reforms began, growthrates have been higher … the last few quarters has generated worried commentaries about India's growth potential. The questions being raised are …" for India's growth potential? What sets of policies, structural or cyclical, might be needed to revive growth? In this …

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the …

This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …'s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …