neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of …

Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … of TFP growth subsequent to independence in the early 1960s. Average agricultural TFP growth for sub-Saharan Africa was 0 …

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high … incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the …

Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a … model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R …