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This paper addresses the economic impact of the labor force training program (PAFPA) developed for the informal sector in Cote d'Ivoire. The data contain a subsample of the participants in the agricultural sector, tailoring sector, and the electronics sector and a comparable control group of...
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Lifelong learning is increasingly being recognized as a primary factor for knowledge diffusion and productivity growth …
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Much of the current analysis on agricultural productivity is hampered by the lack of consistent, high quality data on …
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Governments are resource and bandwidth constrained, and hence need to prioritize productivity-enhancing policies. To do …, coordination ability, and defending against capture is critical to successful implementation of productivity policies and should be …
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loss, although not exclusively due to estates, is associated with a 12 percent productivity loss for females, which is …
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A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the inverse farm size-yield relationship weakened significantly over time, despite an increase in the dispersion of farm sizes. Key reasons are substitution of capital for labor in...
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: firm growth and productivity are much higher when Internet access is greater and when firms use the Internet more …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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