continents and the rest of the world. There is a strong link between a country’s human capital and total factor productivity … productivity, with a striking geographic or regional divide. Human capital tends to be higher in Southern African and North African …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …