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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.
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.
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.
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'.
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In a study countering the conventional view that public ownership of industry in postwar Britain had a negative impact on performance, the author traces the evolution of the US-UK labor productivity gap from 1954-79 by focusing on five public and 24 private industries in the expanding manufacturing, utility, transport, and communications sectors. Supported by tables and figures, this comparison also analyzes the rate at which UK state-owned enterprises tended to close the performance gap relative to their US counterparts and the UK private sector. Nearly half the book is devoted to appended methodological notes on the study sample and selection of the performance benchmark indices. Iordanoglou is a visiting lecturer in economics at the U. of Crete, Greece. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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.