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 …

This paper considers methods to measure output and productivity in the delivery of health services, with an application … considers how this might be implemented given available data. Measures of input use are discussed and productivity growth …

productivity that is difficult to interpret. In this article, we explore some possible explanations for recent economic growth and … labour productivity outcomes, with a focus on developments in the composition of growth. We also examine whether recent … productivity outcomes hold any implications for the Australian economy's potential growth rate. We find that recent weak growth in …

The United States has long been considered the world’s productivity frontier, maintaining a sizeable aggregate … productivity gap with Australia over the past quarter century. This paper finds that Australia’s industry structure does not appear … to make a major difference to Australia’s productivity gap with the US, suggesting that the gap arises mainly from …

This paper examines Japanese growth prospects through a 3P framework - population, participation and productivity - and … illustrates the importance of productivity growth in offsetting the effects of declining population and aggregate labour force … participation. Without further structural reforms, particularly in the labour market and non-tradeable sectors, labour productivity …

Despite a series of broad and deep macroeconomic and microeconomic reforms boosting Australia's productivity growth … productivity plays a central role in explaining Australia’s GDP per capita relative to the US. This paper reviews various … explanations for the Australia-US productivity gap and finds that the productivity gap can at least in part be explained by a …

We examine two sources of productivity improvements in localized industrial clusters of the silk-reeling industry in … prewar Japan. Agglomeration improves the productivity of each plant through positive externalities which shift plant …-level productivity distribution to the right. Selection expels less productive plants through competition, which truncates the …

region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006 … regions from both ends of the productivity distribution. Firms with high capital intensity and high productivity as well as … firms with very low productivity and low capital intensity tend to relocate to the core. We use Japanese micro data to …

In this paper we consider aggregate Malmquist productivity index measures which allow inputs to be reallocated within … Nesterenko and Zelenyuk (2007) with the aggregate Malmquist productivity index results of Zelenyuk (2006) to determine aggregate … Malmquist productivity indexes that are justified by economic theory, consistent with previous aggregation results, and which …

productivity and export demand in timber manufacturing industries. The model is structurally estimated using Indonesian timber … environmental abatement has little impact on productivity dynamics, but does encourage growth in export demand. Counterfactual …