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Productivity growth effects of structural reforms: Evidence from developing countriesWhich structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by combining the local projections method and the inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (LP-IPWRA) method...
Labour productivity Reforms Business cyclesWorking Paper
Reigniting labour productivity growth in developing countries: Do structural reforms matter?While the negative effects of the 2008 global financial crisis on labour productivity are still fresh in people’s minds, the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns that productivity will continue to decline...
Labour productivity Business cycles Economic growthWorking Paper
Structural transformation, openness, and productivity growth in sub-Saharan AfricaThis paper examines the connections of structural change and economic openness to labour productivity growth using a panel data set of 41 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1991–2015...
Sub-Saharan Africa Structural transformation Labour productivityBlog
Why are workers getting a smaller share of the cake in Mexico?As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. In other words, wages have decreased compared with other sources of income such as capital income...
Income inequality Earnings inequality WagesWorking Paper
Private standards and labour productivity in the food sector in VietnamA rising number of firms from developing countries have adopted voluntary private standards in the last decade...
Labour productivity SMEs Food industry and tradeBook Chapter
Mozambique: Growth experience through an employment lensFrom the book: Africa's Lions
Economic growth Labour productivity PovertyBook Chapter
Kenya: Economic growth, labor market dynamics, and prospects for a demographic dividendFrom the book: Africa's Lions
Economic growth Labour Labour productivityBook Chapter
Ghana: A successful growth story with job creation concernsFrom the book: Africa's Lions
Economic growth Employees Equality and inequalityBlog
African Lions - Tapping the potential of Kenya's economic growth
From 2000-2014, like many other sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya experienced high growth, at an average of 4.37 percent...
Economic growth Labour Labour productivityBlog
African Lions - Ghana's job creation successes and obstacles Over the past two decades, Ghana’s economy experienced an average annual growth rate of 5.8 percent, and became a low-middle income country in 2007...
Economic growth Employees Equality and inequalityBlog
Getting a high five - Advancing Africa’s transformative agenda
At his swearing in, the new African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina set out an agenda for the economic transformation of the continent...
Economic growth Labour productivity PovertyBlog
African Lions - Unpacking labor trends and growth in Mozambique Mozambique, over the last two decades, has experienced explosive growth, with an average GDP growth rate of almost 8 percent between 1997-2015...
Economic growth Labour productivity PovertyWorking Paper
Understanding Ghana’s growth success story and job creation challengesGhana’s status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country’s remarkable growth performance, which culminated in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak...
Economic growth Employees Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
The African Lions: Kenya country case studyThis paper mainly analyses the drivers of economic growth in Kenya and the linkages to the labour market dynamics, with a focus on population growth, its structure, and the prospects of reaping a demographic dividend...
Economic growth Labour Labour productivityWorking Paper
Understanding Mozambique’s growth experience through an employment lensOver the past twenty years, Mozambique has achieved remarkable progress in promoting macroeconomic growth and stability. Nonetheless, poverty rates remain high and labour market activity is dominated by smallholder farming...
Economic growth Labour productivity PovertyBlog
WIDER Annual Lecture 18: Managing Structural Transformation
18 December 2014 Roger Williamson At the UN headquarters in New York on 18 November 2014, Peter Timmer, emeritus professor from Harvard, showed how the three transformations (structural, agricultural, and dietary) relate to development...
Agriculture Climate change Structural adjustment (Economic policy)