We consider economic development of sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and firms within sectors. Why have 'productivity enclaves', islands of high productivity in a sea of smaller … low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyse three sets of factors: First, the poor …

We consider economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa from the perspective of slow convergence of productivity, both … across sectors and across firms within sectors. Why have “productivity enclaves”, islands of high productivity in a sea of … smaller low-productivity firms, not diffused more rapidly? We summarize and analyze three sets of factors: First, the poor …

education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level … productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

productivity growth in high-technology enterprises, but at the same time, the technological investments have an impact on the …The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing … companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical part was …

employment share, in the demand of goods due to technology, in trade patterns and in technology. These structural changes may … productivity convergence and its speed at the country, region and industry levels simultaneously. The results show that conditional …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

European industries are under pressure regarding their environmental performance and productivity growth. The current … of firm's competitiveness. This paper studies environmental productivity and its components at a European industrial … results point out that industrial environmental productivity has deteriorated across Europe with best practice change being …

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm … size. -- Organizational change ; ICT investment ; skills ; human capital ; productivity ; complementarity ; SMEs …