The paper examines the impact of 2008 economic crisis on the dynamic productivity growth and its components using a firm-level dataset of Spanish meat processing, dairy processing and oils and fats firms. The impulse response analysis by local projections shows that the impact of crisis on...

Firm-level data usually show that a large portion of firm-level investment takes place in a few investment episodes. This paper assesses productivity growth and its components in production framework that accounts for the dynamics of capital adjustment and relates this to investment spikes using...

Under nutrition of children in Senegal is considered a serious public health problem. Its negative effects are particularly felt in rural areas often characterized by extreme poverty. The objective of this paper is to measure the impact of the construction of basic social infrastructures on the...