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 …

This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by … countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource … changes in distortions is because of unrealized gains suggested by high levels of present distortions, productivity gains are …

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …

's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity … productivity effects were modest, total employment generated by the program (but not employment in irrigation-related activities …) significantly increased productivity, suggesting alleviation of liquidity constraints and implicit insurance provision rather than …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes — sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity — in …

productivity growth (learning-by-exporting hypothesis) using matching techniques to control for the possibility that selection into … additional growth in total factor productivity that emerges since the firm’s first year of exporting but lasts only one year …This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the …