Innovation and Productivity Advances in British Agriculture: 1620–1850

PRODUCTIVITY IN IRISH AgRICULTURE

While detailed analysis of the productivity of many sectors of the Irish economy are not possible because of a lack of data, the quality and volume of data on agricultural outputs and inputs allows such an analysis. In this chapter, a picture of the productivity performance of the Irish agriculture sector based on various different measures is presented and compared with the performance of Irel...

Innovation and Productivity

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this relationship is presented and the implications of analysis using this model and the usually available data on product and process innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then surveyed. The conclusion...

Innovation and Productivity Growth

“The puzzle confronting economists has been that the rate of growth of output that was being observed has been much larger than the rate of increase in the principal resources that were being measured. It is now clear that this puzzle is of our own making because we have been using measures of capital and labor which had been refined and narrowed in ways that excluded many of the improvements t...

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Increasing productivity and efficiency in agriculture.

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