In this paper we analyze whether the employment/productivity profile of growth as well as its sectoral pattern matter for poverty reduction. We also identify some conditions of the labor market which are associated with employment intensive growth or specific sectoral growth. We find that, in the short run, while the overall employment intensity of growth does not matter for poverty reduction, ...

This paper examines the impact of manufacturing import growth on agricultural productivity for a small open economy using a 2× 2 sector endogenous growth model. We show that the increase of import variety share in manufacturing, when there is no trade induced labor reallocation, drives the emergence of a sectoral productivity growth gap: productivity growth in agriculture is lower than in manuf...

Although India possesses the large volume of livestock, their productivity is abysmally low at global level. India, with its wide variation in geo-ecological parameters, elucidates a high variation in the productivity of its livestock, among regions. The compound growth rate of livestock productivity was worked out for the Southern Peninsular state of India, Tamil Nadu. The average productivity...

It is widely held that more productive firms grow faster, thus reallocating resources and raising aggregate productivity. Yet little empirical research identifies the features of mechanisms affecting this process. This paper develops tests a general model encompassing several used to overcome informational frictions growth. We find firm size, productivity dispersion, large investments in intang...

This paper shows that productivity growth is more strongly correlated across U.S. regions than across the G7 countries. Cross-region correlations of productivity growth within a given industry are typically stronger than cross-sector correlations of productivity growth within the same region.

Purpose In this paper, the heterogeneity of linkages among financial development, productivity and growth across income groups is emphasized. Design/methodology/approach An empirical analysis conducted with an illustrative sample 130 economies over period 1991–2019 classified into four subsamples: Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD), developing, least developed net food im...