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U.S. Productivity Growth: An Optimistic Perspective

March 29, 2013, Martin Neil Baily, James M. Manyika and Shalabh Gupta

The Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services Program on Household Production and Welfare in Uganda

March 2013, Geofrey Okoboi, Annette Kuteesa and Mildred Barungi

A Cheerful Welcome to the Robots, Our Future Work Overlords

February 18, 2013, Scott Winship

Embrace Career Change, But Still Stand for Something

January 3, 2013, Robert C. Pozen

From Investment Management to Time Management

December 16, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Exports and Export Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa

December 2012, Vera Songwe and Deborah Winkler

Extreme Productivity: Taking Time to Make Time

December 10, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Exercise Increases Productivity

October 24, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Labor Strikes Are Becoming a Rising Concern across Africa

October 18, 2012, Anne W. Kamau

Skimming Your Way to 'Extreme Productivity'

October 15, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

The majority of companies believe you have to be there from 9 to 6 or 8 to 5. But it really doesn’t make sense to say a person who is in the office 40 hours a week is more productive than someone who is in the office 20 hours.

October 11, 2012, Robert C. Pozen, NBC's Today Show Online

Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

2012, Robert C. Pozen

How to Master the Art of Productivity

October 1, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Financing for a Fairer, More Prosperous Kenya: A Review of the Public Spending Challenges and Options for Selected Arid and Semi-Arid Counties

August 2012, Kevin Watkins and Woubedle Alemayehu

The Republican leadership compromised just enough [on the debt ceiling] to make sure they got a deal done at the last minute, and if you were [willing to make a wager], you would probably say that’s what will happen again the next time around because they don’t want to be responsible for plunging the economy into chaos.

July 25, 2012, Philip A. Wallach, Voice of America

[America's political leaders] seem less interested in actually solving problems than in presenting some doctrinaire view that's not getting anything done. We now have parallel political universes that don't connect to one another, and it leaves voters confused.

July 11, 2012, Darrell M. West, CNN

Transportation Bill Is Critical for America’s Productivity and Competitiveness

June 26, 2012, Robert Puentes

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Extending the Learning Community: Rural Radio, Social Learning and Farm Productivity in Ghana

April 2012, Olumide Taiwo and Emmanuel Asmah

Latin America Economic Perspectives - All Together Now: The Challenge of Regional Integration

April 2012, Lucio Castro, Luciano Cohan and Eduardo Levy-Yeyati

Can Producer Associations Make Agriculture Sustainable? Evidence from Farmer Development Centers in India

January 11, 2012, Raj M. Desai and Shareen Joshi

The Economics of Human Development

November 15, 2011, Jacques van der Gaag

Big Box vs. Spring Boks: Wal-Mart’s Troubles Entering the South African Retail Market

November 1, 2011, Jessica Smith and Olumide Taiwo

Idle Youth in Latin America: A Persistent Problem in a Decade of Prosperity

August 2011, Mauricio Cárdenas, Rafael de Hoyos and Miguel Székely

To Solve the Fiscal Dilemma, Look to the Details

September 1, 2011, Kemal Derviş

A Regional Approach to Managing Africa's Food Shocks

August 23, 2011, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Nelipher Moyo and Jessica Smith