Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

for earnings mobility and growth; for the majority, however, selfemployment remains constrained to low-productivity … labor away from these low-productivity activities into higher value added sectors. …