This study is a first contribution to prioritization across productivity determinant capabilities that attempts to …

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 …

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

importance of total factor productivity and the accumulation of factors of production in the economic development performance of … advanced countries and peer countries in other regions. The paper finds that total factor productivity is the predominant … factor: low productivity and slow productivity growth, as opposed to impediments to factor accumulation, are the key to …

's success well, poor productivity performance in the services sector has hampered overall productivity growth. The Republic of … People's Republic of China needs to upgrade its institutional quality and improve productivity, particularly in its services …

productivity and the accumulation of factors of production as engines of growth in Latin America. Using the new, drastically … revised Penn World Table (PWT) and Barro-Lee datasets, the paper shows that lower and non-convergent income relative to … successful development benchmarks are explained by subpar productivity gains rather than slower factor accumulation. The …

In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and … worldly pleasures and aggregate productivity takes off. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant …

role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief … direct contribution of factors of production. -- Development accounting ; total factor productivity ; technology …