The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …

a country catches up to the leader depends primarily on factors that affect productivity in non- agricultural activities …: agricultural productivity is thus largely irrelevant in the very long run. But in the short run, a country that experiences large … improvements in agricultural productivity (due to, say, a Green Revolution) will experience a rapid increase in its income relative …

, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …