While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

Recent literature indicates the significant role played by rural infrastructure in improving agricultural productivity … a significant constraint to growth and productivity. Rural infrastructure, like other public investments, raises … agricultural productivity, which in turn induces growth in the rural areas, bringing about higher agricultural wages and improved …

-related information are the major constraints on the growth of agricultural productivity in India. The more rapid growth of mobile … explore this topic: What kind of information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity? Do mobile phones … of the full productivity enhancing potential of mobile phones? The answers to these questions have important implications …

-stage simulation making a distinction between immediate direct effects and possible long-run effects from increased productivity. While …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …