[PDF] Productivity Revisited eBook

Author : Ana Paula Cusolito
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464813620

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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
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464813344

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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
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226473031

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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 :
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781911113720

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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 : Mr.Jaromir Benes
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475505523

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At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages for this plan: (1) Much better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4) Dramatic reduction of private debt, as money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation. We study these claims by embedding a comprehensive and carefully calibrated model of the banking system in a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. We find support for all four of Fisher's claims. Furthermore, output gains approach 10 percent, and steady state inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy.

Author : Marvin R. Weisbord
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470900172

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Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book of the Year This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind “getting everybody improving whole systems” as a response to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same as using any particular method). The themes, case studies (many revisited), and models are as relevant as ever.

Author : Graham Dyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780714642451

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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.