Este libro documenta las tendencias de la productividad en el África subsahariana en tres dimensiones diferentes, evaluando la productividad a nivel agregado, a nivel sectorial y a nivel de establecimiento. Caracteriza la evolución de la productividad en la región en relación con otros países y regiones, así como con grupos de países de África, clasificados por su grado de abundancia de recursos naturales y condición de fragilidad.

 The volume suggests that the persistence of the productivity gap in Africa vis-à-vis the technological frontier can be attributed to the slow accumulation of physical and human capital relative to the region’s growing population, as well as the poor allocation of these resources. These allocative inefficiencies are the outcome of policies and institutions that introduce distortions in the decision-making process of individuals. Hence, the volume assesses the implications of production decisions across agricultural farms and manufacturing firms. It presents evidence on aggregate productivity from the perspective of production units, using recent household surveys for farmers and firm-level surveys for select countries, as well as frontier estimation techniques.

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