-fertilization of experiences. Total factor productivity comparisons suggest that capital accumulation in China coupled with more …

1990-2012 into investment in different types of knowledge capital. These spending categories are related to industry …

-augmenting productivity and other structural parameters in the model may have shifted over time to contribute to the generation of …

barriers to open markets and access to finance are significantly associated with differences in total factor productivity … performance of private investment. Reforms to improve the policy framework in these areas, up to the level of the best …

rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of … productivity (at about 30 percent each), mainly by encouraging market-based land transfers. A sustained increase in non …

agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market. The empirical work is based on a general equilibrium … elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to … significant positive effect of agricultural productivity on rice yield and agricultural wages. Productivity shock increases wages …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …;innovation shortfallquot;, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (Ramp;D) when compared with some high … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …