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Enrollment rates for higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa are by far the lowest in the world at 6%. Yet because of conventional beliefs that tertiary education is less important for poverty reduction, the international development community has encouraged African governments' relative neglect...
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learned about the contribution of higher education to economic growth. Attention is given to the research, teaching and …
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We study the relationships between firm financial structure and growth for a large sample of Italian firms observed from 1998 to 2003. We expand upon existing analyses testing whether liquidity constraints affect firm performance by considering among growth determinants also firm debt structure....
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Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts …, leading to a lively debate about the connection between IT and productivity and about the sustainability of the faster growth … acceleration in labor productivity after 1995 was driven largely by the greater use of IT capital goods and by the more rapid …
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Labor productivity - output per hour worked - is an important factor determining the wealth of national economies and … importance, it has received scant attention in political science. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the study of the productivity … findings are the following. Family support policy boosts productivity growth. So does public education, particularly university …
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labor productivity TFP are affected mainly by efficiency and technological changes. That reflects the improvements …
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of productivity, to a larger production potential and to a higher growth rate. The new economy has implications for …
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There is a growing international concern about the slowdown in productivity growth, especially as labor productivity … 2010 and 2016, we analyse the relationships between productivity and wages. At odds with neoclassical theory of marginal … productivity of labor, we find that two thirds of firms insufficiently raised wages given observed productivity growth. Employing …
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