productivity investment. The model connects small operational scales to the prevalence in poor countries of correlated distortions … (the elasticity between wedges and establishment productivity). The model also rationalizes the finding in poor countries … of low establishment-level productivity and low aggregate productivity investment. A calibrated version of the model …

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first …

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

Green Revolution varieties to achieve productivity improvements. This paper argues that the private firms supplying GM crop …, there is potential for productivity improvement in disadvantaged environments …

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 …

A decomposition of aggregate labor productivity based on internationally comparable data from FAO and Penn World Tables … reveals that high labor shares and low productivity in agriculture are mainly responsible for poor countries<92> current … factor productivity (TFP) and barriers to using modern intermediate inputs in agricultural production can largely account for …

, manufacturing, and services- and aggregate productivity growth undergone by Portugal between 1956 and 1995. In this paper, we assess … the quantitative role of sectoral productivity in accounting for these processes. We calibrate a model of the structural … and aggregate productivity growth in Portugal. The model implies that Portugal features low and roughly constant relative …

foreign investments on the productivity of domestic firms. Using pooled regression analysis with fixed effects for the period … 2002 – 2005, we find that: (a) foreign investments have significant positive effect on productivity of domestic firms … are controlled for in the cross-section productivity regression, the relationship between the share of foreign technical …

(the process of structural transformation) and the growth rate of sectoral labor productivity across countries. We find … for some countries. We investigate whether sectoral differences in labor productivity can account for differences in the … process of structural transformation and aggregate productivity across countries. We consider a model of the structural …