We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based on cross …

endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … "residual" productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half. …

1 Introduction -- 2 The Data: Productivity and Capital Differences across Countries and over Time -- 3 Two … Complementary Frameworks to Study Convergence Clubs -- 4 Convergence Clubs in Labor Productivity -- 5 Convergence Clubs in Physical … and Human Capital -- 6 Convergence Clubs in Total Factor Productivity -- 7 Accounting for Convergence Clubs -- 8 …

1. COVID-19 and Efficiency in a New Global Economy -- 2. Total Factor Productivity & Labour Productivity drivers in … Jamaica -- 3. Productivity & Labour Usage in the Goods Producing Sector in Jamaica -- 4. Productivity & Labour Usuage in the … Service Providing Sector in Jamaica -- 5. Human Capital, Productivity & Compensation in Jamaica -- 6. Migration and Human …