. This paper aims at assessing the impact of this rapid urbanization process on the country's sector productivity. The … econometric relation linking sector productivity to accessibility, localization, and urbanization economies, proxying variables in … urbanization economies, as well as market accessibility, are productivity-enhancing factors in Turkey, although the causation link …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …

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 …

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 …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access … firm productivity and service performance in all three services sectors analyzed. The authors thus provide support for the …

The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using data …

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

There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such … studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that … the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory …

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … and productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger … shares of land to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased …

This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship, which states that land … productivity decreases as plot size increases. Existing empirical studies on the inverse plot-size productivity relationship define … land productivity or yields as self-reported production divided by plot size. This paper considers an alternative approach …