This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and … change and productivity growth in manufacturing. An attribution exercise suggests that structural change and agricultural … productivity growth account for a substantial share of poverty reduction in developing Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, and that …