improving households' risk-management through income diversification. The intervention targeted agricultural households exposed … interventions led to diversification of economic activities and better protection from shocks compared to beneficiaries of the basic …

Recent research highlights the relationship between economic development and productive diversification, which may be … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a … new export products, (2) export diversification measured by an index of export-revenue concentration, and (3) on …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

Estimates of total factor productivity growth, a measure of increases in the efficiency of production, have … countries. This leads to incorrect measures of total factor productivity growth. Using data on natural resources from the World … Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, this paper makes new estimates of total factor productivity growth for 74 …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes ? sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity ? in …

less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male counterparts. These gender differences in land productivity … services. In this paper, the authors review the evidence on productivity differences and access to resources. They discuss some … productivity of land and overall production are likely to be large …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

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 …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into … productivity, including higher cereal yields, through increased fertilizer and tractor use. Higher productivity in turn leads to …