How can foreign aid to agriculture support economic growth in Africa? This paper constructs a geographically …-indexed applied general equilibrium model that considers pathways through which aid might affect growth and structural transformation … boost rural productivity and shift labor to boost real wages. One simulation shows how a temporary program of targeted …

In this paper, Arbache, Go, and Page examine the recent acceleration of growth in Africa. Unlike the past, the … analysis confirms a trend break in the mid-1990s, identifying a growth acceleration that is due not only to favorable terms of … trade and greater aid, but also to better policy. Indeed, the growth diagnostics show that more and more African countries …

corroborated in the data, as potential exit is not predicated on the size of firms, their age, or their productivity …

This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …

associated with subsequent growth in firm productivity …High-growth firms have been widely studied in advanced countries, but little is known about such stellar performers in … Africa. Using establishment-level data from Ethiopia, this paper finds that the incidence of high-growth firms stands at an …

The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

This paper examines the determinants of the productivity of Nigerian firms, using three waves of Enterprise Surveys … from 2007, 2009, and 2014 and 7,670 firms. The paper uses three alternative measures of productivity, which are found to be … highly correlated: labor productivity, value added per worker, and total factor productivity. The more notable trends in the …

productivity in Pakistan. The analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in the duration of outages on average leads to a 0 …