This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is … demonstrate that a Paasche, Laspeyres or Fisher index number formula provides a measure for all four of the concepts of TFPG …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing … applied to three comparable household surveys from Rwanda (EICV data for the years 1999-2001, 2005- 2006, and 2010-2011), a …