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Purpose – This paper aims to measure and compare agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth in China and India and relates TFP growth in each country to policy milestones and investment in agricultural research. Design/methodology/approach – TFP is measured using a non-parametric...
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production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …; fewer economies of scale; lower educational attainment of the workforce; and greater seasonality of production. …
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Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq Ahmad, William Horsman, and Phaedra Kaptein-Russell of Industry Canada provides support for this view by finding a strong positive relationship between measures of fundamental...
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for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …
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settlers’ per capita income is similar to the most prosperous countries of the time – Holland and England. We trace the roots … of slavery, and attempt to link the eighteenth century Cape Colony experience to twentieth century South African income …
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