We offer a barrier model of growth with a broader understanding of the sources of productivity growth. Organizational … more on own productivity improvements through organizational change. Trade liberalization in backward economies does not … give the expected boost to productivity growth, because of low capability to take advantage of the frontier technology …

economic growth into capital-deepening and productivity components, to a more complex account of the growth process. In the … more complex account, capital and productivity interact, both are endogenous, and quality change in inputs and output … matters. New developments in micro-level productivity analysis are also reviewed, and the long-standing question of net versus …

Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which …