We examine how differences in financial reporting practices shape firm productivity. Leveraging new audit questions in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2021 Management and Organizational Practices Survey ...

The secret ingredient in economic growth is what economists call total factor productivity. You can always increase output by putting more people or more machines to work, but that consumes real ...

Agricultural productivity continues to fall below the needed targets to meet the global demands of feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050 as outlined by the latest Global Agricultural Productivity ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Total factor productivity (TFP) has gained increased importance as it has been helpful in accelerating the rate of economic growth in ...

The Trump administration has yet to produce a full budget, as required by law, but that is not stopping some top officials from opining about the future course of federal deficits and debt. In ...

The Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, Papers and Proceedings PART II Twentieth Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists Islamabad, January ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Belgium’s total factor productivity (TFP) growth slowdown since the late 1990s has been worse than peers’ despite ...

Goldman Sachs reports that the United States has dramatically outpaced other advanced economies in labor productivity growth ...

For all of their fast growth, Asia’s economies are grappling with stagnant productivity. Much of Asia’s recent growth is driven by greater investment, and not by improvements in total factor ...

U.S. productivity is growing slower than in the past. Meanwhile, sales have become increasingly concentrated in the largest businesses. Analysis suggests that IT innovation may have facilitated the ...

Potential gains in targeted sectors and overall are not guaranteed and depend on careful policy design and implementation ...