Productivity Revisited

Author : Ana Paula Cusolito,William F. Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464813627

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Productivity Revisited by Ana Paula Cusolito,William F. Maloney Pdf

Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the slowing of global growth amid spectacular technological advances, and developing countries’ frustratingly slow progress in catching up to the technological frontier. Productivity Revisited brings together the new conceptual advances of 'second-wave' productivity analysis that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set of tools for approaching these debates. The book extends this analysis and, using unique data sets from multiple developing countries, grounds it in the developing-country context. It calls for rebalancing away from an exclusive focus on misallocation toward a greater focus on upgrading firms and facilitating the emergence of productive new establishments. Such an approach requires a supportive environment and various types of human capital--managerial, technical, and actuarial--necessary to cultivate new transformational firms. The book is the second volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.

Author : Ana Paula Cusolito,William Francis Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464813345

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Productivity Revisited by Ana Paula Cusolito,William Francis Maloney Pdf

Productivity has again moved to center stage in two critical academic and policy debates: the showing of global growth amid spectacular technological advances, and developing countries' frustratingly slow progess in catching up to the technological frontier. Productivity revisited brings together the new conceptual advances of "second-wave" productivity analysis that have revolutionized the study of productivity, calling much previous analysis into question while providing a new set of tools for approaching these debates. The book extends this analysis and, using unique data sets from multiple developing countries, grounds it in the developing-country context. It calls for rebalancing away from an exclusive focus on misallocation toward a greater focus on upgrading firms and facilitating the emergence of productivenew establishments. Such an approach requires a supportive environment and various types of human capital - managerial, technical, and actuarial - necessary to cultivate new transformational firms. The book is the second volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers.

Author : Josh Lerner,Scott Stern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226473031

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The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited by Josh Lerner,Scott Stern Pdf

This volume offers contributions to questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological change. Central to the development of new technologies are institutional environments and among the topics discussed are the roles played by universities and the ways in which the allocation of funds affects innovation.

Author : Dick Smythe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1911113720

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Productivity Knowhow by Dick Smythe Pdf

Productivity improvement is the biggest issue facing any manager at any level in any organisation in any sector - and the biggest peacetime issue facing any government minister too. Dick Smythe was educated at Bolton School, graduated in pure mathematics and statistics at St Andrews University and then took a masters in Operations Research at Birmingham University. He was then recruited by Europe's leading consultancy of the day, PA Consulting Group, and went on to set up and grow their Productivity Services Division into a significant part of the business, becoming a PA director and sitting on their UK management consultancy board - whilst there, he led a joint study with the CBI into UK productivity, and presented the results on TV, radio and to the national press with Director General Sir John Banham - The Times leader commented: "It is refreshing to come across something that has its feet firmly planted on the ground" Since then, he has mixed productivity consultancy work with playing the property and stock markets, skippering his own boat in the Fastnet and many other ocean yacht races and keeping his golf handicap down to single figures As the late Peter Drucker once said, managers have always sought something which lets them 'do their job with less effort, in less time, yet with greater impact'.

Author : Marvin R. Weisbord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780787973292

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Productive Workplaces Revisited by Marvin R. Weisbord Pdf

In Productive Workplaces Revisited, Marvin Weisbord takes the next step in exploring effective strategies for improving workplace productivity through dignity, meaning, and community. Remarkably, in this new edition the author revisits the case studies from the first edition, Productive Workplaces, to show the long-term effects of OD interventions -- twenty-plus years after the fact and provides invaluable insights for practitioner and student alike. In five new chapters, Weisbord reinterprets his systems work in health care and steel-making, describes how “future search,” his method for “getting everybody improving whole systems,” has crossed cultures on five continents, and summarizes his learning from following up cases decades later. This edition also presents in-depth case studies of organizations that have used these techniques to increase output, cut costs, create strategic plans, manage conflict between functions, and more.

Author : Anne Schröder
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English language
ISBN : 9783823365877

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On the Productivity of Verbal Prefixation in English by Anne Schröder Pdf

Author : Graham Dyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0714642452

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Class, State, and Agricultural Productivity in Egypt by Graham Dyer Pdf

This study uses Egyptian fieldwork data to examine factors creating the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity, and the impact of economic and technological change on the relationship.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251045534

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Agricultural Investment and Productivity in Developing Countries by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Includes 8 papers by various authors.

Author : Mark J. Lasky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317502517

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Three Essays on Productivity (RLE: Business Cycles) by Mark J. Lasky Pdf

The behaviour of US productivity since this book was originally publishedin 1994, has added new relevance to the relationship between profits and productivity. In the long run, productivity growth determines the economic standard of living. This book is divided into three parts: the basis of the first is the empirical finding that, controlling for normal business cycle effects, productivity grows faster when profits have been low than otherwise. The second part discusses how to measure marginal cost using time series data and the third tests a basic assumption that productivity growth is exogenous to labour and capital.

Author : Albert N. Link
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415269296

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Technological Change and Productivity Growth by Albert N. Link Pdf

This volume reviews the literature on productivity growth and relates it to the production function approach to technological change.

Author : John R. Westley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429711961

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Agriculture And Equitable Growth by John R. Westley Pdf

This book aims to examine how the pattern of growth in the agricultural sectors has contributed to equitable growth and to assess the relevance of the relationship between agriculture and equitable growth in Punjab-Haryana for other states in India and for other low-income countries.

Author : Emili Grifell-Tatjé,C.A. Knox Lovell,Robin C. Sickles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190226725

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The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis by Emili Grifell-Tatjé,C.A. Knox Lovell,Robin C. Sickles Pdf

Productivity underpins business success and national well-being and thus it is crucial to understand the factors that influence productivity growth. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration into the significance of productivity growth for business, the economy, and for social economic progress. It examines how productivity is defined, measured and implemented. It also surveys the dispersion of productivity across time and place, focusing on the productivity dynamics that either leads to a reallocation of resources that reduces dispersion and increases aggregate productivity or, conversely, allows dispersion to persist behind barriers to productivity-enhancing reallocation. A third focus is an investigation of the drivers of, or impediments to, productivity growth, some of which are organizational in nature and under management control and others of which are institutional in nature and subject to public policy intervention. The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis contains contributions of distinguished productivity experts from around the world who analyze a wide range of timely issues. These issues concern purely analytical topics surrounding the measurement of productivity in various situations, beginning with the ideal situation in which all inputs and all outputs, and their prices, are observed accurately. They also include service sectors such as education in which the services provided are hard to define, much less measure, and other sectors that generate undesirable environmental externalities that are difficult to price and complicate the very definition of productivity. The issues also involve business management topics ranging from the role of business models and benchmarking to the quality of management practices, the adoption of new technologies, and possible complementarities between the two. The relationship between productivity and business performance is also explored. At a more aggregate level the issues range from the impacts of market power, incentive regulation, international trade and global value chains on productivity, to the contribution of productivity to economic development and economic welfare.

Author : S.S. Kalamkar
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788184246926

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Agricultural Growth and Productivity in Maharashtra by S.S. Kalamkar Pdf

Maharashtra is an important state of India so far as its contribution to the agriculture development of the country is concerned. During the last four decades, the agricultural sector of Maharashtra has undergone lots of changes. Though agricultural performance improved during the last forty years, its progress was not sustained and showed wide fluctuations. In fact, the important characteristics of Maharashtra agriculture are the instability in crop production and significant regional variations in the performance of agriculture in the state. The recent farmer suicides in Vidarbha and Marathawada have once again highlighted regional disparity in Maharashtra. The agrarian crisis in Vidarbha has spun almost out of control. There are a number of factors which limit the growth of agriculture over the years in the state. It is, therefore, necessary to look into the factors affecting agricultural growth.

Author : R. David Professor Simpson,Michael A. Professor Toman,Robert U. Professor Ayres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136524721

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Scarcity and Growth Revisited by R. David Professor Simpson,Michael A. Professor Toman,Robert U. Professor Ayres Pdf

In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589064751

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IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 3 by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. Pdf

This last issue for 2005 comprises seven new papers, including a contribution to the journal's occasional Special Data Section about domestic debt markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, and also an in-depth look at the internal job market for entry-level economists at the IMF. The remaining articles cover toics as diverse as: modeling of asset markets, exchange rates in developing countries, international bank claims on Latin America, the effectiveness of "early warning" systems, and the use (by emerging market countries) of the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).