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in productivity gains from additional varieties of services, the analysis finds that real wages increase across all …
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study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing … lead to two conclusions. First, the study finds that services policy matters for the productivity of manufacturing firms …
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Several high-level reports have raised the concern that low-income countries, especially in Africa, are experiencing premature de-industrialization. The concern is that they are growing without transforming. Have the latecomers to development missed the boat? Although these concerns are well...
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Developing countries made considerable gains during the first decade of the 21st century. Their economies grew at unprecedented rates, resulting in large reduction in extreme poverty and a significant expansion of the middle class. But more recently that progress has slowed with an economic...
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historical patterns of productivity convergence at a more detailed sector disaggregation than has been previously available. The …
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. As a consequence, productivity increases and expansion in the commercial primary production sector will cause …
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Active economic policies by developing countries? governments to promote growth and industrialization have generally been viewed with suspicion by economists, and for good reasons: past experiences show that such policies have too often failed to achieve their stated objectives. But the...
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accumulation, and total factor productivity, unlike previous periods. Resources play a role by attracting capital inflows …
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This paper is about micro foundations of productivity and growth. There are several studies on productivity for … productivity at firm, industry and national levels, but total factor productivity progressively tapers off at each level of …; (ii) capital accumulation is more important at the macro level than the micro level; (iii) productivity at the micro level …
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dimensions coincided with significant growth in aggregate labor productivity. However, in and of itself, the same reallocation … could only have held back, rather than aid, the observed productivity gains. This was because labor was more productive … productivity of the reallocation of employment between the two sectors could only have been reinforced by the impacts on the same …
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