and lower teaching quality when in class. The authors document that health problems-primarily teachers' own illness and … are unable to substitute adequately for teaching inputs. Excess teaching capacity that allows for the greater use of …

This paper assesses two research questions: has the presence of foreign firms contributed to productivity increases in … foreign direct investment will see an increase in productivity after the fourth year. The paper finds evidence of negative but …

Uganda's growth in gross domestic product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity … other fixed assets, but also entailed substantial gains in total factor productivity Based on data from two waves of the … Uganda Business Indicators survey this paper estimates that economy wide aggregate labor productivity and aggregate TFP grew …

as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … countries. However, the final impact on productivity depends on the degree of novelty of the innovation introduced by the firm …