Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s
Uganda's growth in gross domestic product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity across industries producing tradable goods and services. This came about primarily as a result of investment in equipment and oth...
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okr-10986-258082021-06-08T14:42:46Z Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s Dennis, Allen Mengistae, Taye Yoshino, Yutaka Zeufack, Albert economic growth aggregate productivity industrialization manufacturing economic development tradable goods industries total factor productivity labor productivity allocative efficiency Uganda's growth in gross domestic product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of labor productivity across industries producing tradable goods and services. This came about primarily as a result of investment in equipment and other fixed assets, but also entailed substantial gains in total factor productivity Based on data from two waves of the Uganda Business Indicators survey this paper estimates that economy wide aggregate labor productivity and aggregate TFP grew at average annual rates of 13 t and 3 percent, respectively between survey years 2002 and 2009. Part of the growth in productivity on each measure reflected gains from technical progress made at the establishment level and within narrowly defined industries. But it was also in part the outcome of reallocation of labor and capital within as well as across industries. In particular, the paper estimates that about one-fifth of the aggregate growth in labor productivity between the two years reflected the shifting of labor toward industries and sectors where it was more productive on average and at the margin. The rest of the observed growth in labor productivity reflected gains made within narrowly defined industries. But almost in every case 55 to 90 percent of the observed "within industry" growth in labor productivity represented allocative efficiency gains from the correction of intra-industry inter-firm misallocation of labor. The balance of the observed within-industry growth in labor productivity represented establishment-level gains in technical efficiency. 2017-01-04T23:14:35Z 2017-01-04T23:14:35Z 2016-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346311481118203023/Sources-of-productivity-growth-in-Uganda-the-role-of-interindustry-and-intra-industry-misallocation-in-the-2000s http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25808 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7909 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Uganda |
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economic growth aggregate productivity industrialization manufacturing economic development tradable goods industries total factor productivity labor productivity allocative efficiency Dennis, Allen Mengistae, Taye Yoshino, Yutaka Zeufack, Albert Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s |
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Uganda's growth in gross domestic
product of the 2000s was accompanied by high growth rates of
labor productivity across industries producing tradable
goods and services. This came about primarily as a result of
investment in equipment and other fixed assets, but also
entailed substantial gains in total factor productivity
Based on data from two waves of the Uganda Business
Indicators survey this paper estimates that economy wide
aggregate labor productivity and aggregate TFP grew at
average annual rates of 13 t and 3 percent, respectively
between survey years 2002 and 2009. Part of the growth in
productivity on each measure reflected gains from technical
progress made at the establishment level and within narrowly
defined industries. But it was also in part the outcome of
reallocation of labor and capital within as well as across
industries. In particular, the paper estimates that about
one-fifth of the aggregate growth in labor productivity
between the two years reflected the shifting of labor toward
industries and sectors where it was more productive on
average and at the margin. The rest of the observed growth
in labor productivity reflected gains made within narrowly
defined industries. But almost in every case 55 to 90
percent of the observed "within industry" growth
in labor productivity represented allocative efficiency
gains from the correction of intra-industry inter-firm
misallocation of labor. The balance of the observed
within-industry growth in labor productivity represented
establishment-level gains in technical efficiency. |
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Dennis, Allen Mengistae, Taye Yoshino, Yutaka Zeufack, Albert |
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Dennis, Allen Mengistae, Taye Yoshino, Yutaka Zeufack, Albert |
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Dennis, Allen |
| title |
Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s |
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Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s |
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Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s |
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Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s |
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Sources of Productivity Growth in Uganda : The Role of Interindustry and Intra-industry Misallocation in the 2000s |
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sources of productivity growth in uganda : the role of interindustry and intra-industry misallocation in the 2000s |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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