which is really quite a simple insight, but also a really important one, because we very often get lost in the day-to-day of the business cycle of employment and unemployment fluctuating over time.
Over the years countries have attempted to address the problems of malnutrition through large-scale interventions such as national nutrition programs and early child intervention programs. Experience to date shows that investing in nutrition is a worthwhile economic activity with high benefit cost ratios ...
productivity over 37 years in 21 grasslands and savannahs with known agricultural land-use histories. We show that, during the century following agricultural abandonment, local plant diversity recovers only incompletely and plant productivity does not significantly recover. By 91 years after ...
Labour market rigidity, hampering innovation, may be a cause of the slowdown. In the paper this argument is placed in a broader perspective. Labour force participation is an important factor in explaining differences in productivity and welfare over time and across regions as can be illustrated ...
Top of pageMotivation Measuring Total Factor Productivity Results Conclusions References Appendix Using micro data from the manufacturing and service sectors in Uruguay, we analyze the relationship between firm exit and firm productivity. We find that even during profound crisis years, when the financial...
The rise in non-durable output is not going to provide any help on the employment front. The next chart shows the year-over-year changes in overall manufacturing productivity and labor costs over the last twenty years. Despite the slowdown from the fourth quarter (and from the third and seco...
is associated with greater output, lower inflation, and lower poverty rates and inequality. Policy can help set strong and stable incentives for private investment. Growth in capital per worker accounted for about 80 percent of productivity growth in most emerging regions over the past 25 years. ...
The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. ma...
From 2005 to 2015, about 20.9million farmers in 452 counties adopted enhanced management practices in fields with a total of 37.7million cumulative hectares over the years. Average yields (maize, rice and wheat) increased by 10.8–11.5%, generating a net grain output of 33million tonnes (Mt)....
Their [12] results suggest a complementary effect between export and innovation on the performance of Chinese manufacturing firms. Lööf and Nabavi [55] establish a dynamic model using data collected from nearly 10,000 Swedish exporting firms over 12 years, and reveal that persistent innovators ...