productivity leaving aside other effects that arise through the market selection process. Additionally, most studies have focused … on tariff barriers as the only obstacle to international trade and integration. In this paper we use data from Brazil and … Chile to analyze how trade affects aggregate productivity through the process of resource reallocation and to explore not …

This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in …

Ethiopian government has introduced various agricultural package programs in promoting agricultural productivity of the … smallholder farmers. The paper attempts to explore the status and determinants of agricultural productivity and estimate the … impact of integrated agricultural package programs on farm productivity by using extensive panel data in the Eastern zone of …

This study analyzes how risk attitudes influence the agricultural productivity of men and women in a subSaharan African … increase risk taking, the productivity of female-owned plots goes down. The study controls for various socio-economic factors …, improved inputs, and policies that support increase in productivity. …

induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

by changes in wind, I show that higher levels of particulate matter lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with … changes in productivity of 10 percent being common. Combining wind direction with the rollout of coal plants, results indicate … pollution from coal plants has a larger effect on agricultural productivity than other types of pollution. Given that the …

productivity in the European Union between 1977 and 1999. In addition, we study the importance of the respective roles played by … regional and sectoral factors in the convergence of productivity observed in the European context. To achieve this aim, we … literature on personal income distribution. The empirical evidence provided suggests that regional inequality in productivity in …

Productivity (growth) measurements (describing the assessment of an economy’s rate of change in the ratio of a volume … related to society (institutions), history, innovation and productivity change, which are concerned with promoting growth … beyond mere productivity accounting. This paper has attempted to address all these issues as they pertain to Nigeria’s rather …