to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …

The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate … may be an advantage.Martin and Mitra examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and … rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural productivity is invariably low. But Martin and Mitra find that the …

productivity gains and demand growth. In this paper we study the interactions between structural change and technological progress … linking structural transformations and sector-specific technological opportunities to aggregate productivity growth. In the … final part we present productivity decompositions using a sectoral innovation taxonomy to study the contribution of …

productivity cost of recessions adds to the traditional costs of resource under-utilization …

markets have in creating variation in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). Development accounting research has shown … what creates these differences in TFP in the first place. The dual economy model suggests that aggregate productivity is … depressed by inefficient factor markets that allocate too many factors to low productivity work in agriculture. Data show wide …

The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …