This compendium "Resource Productivity in 7 Steps" is intended to give practical advice to designers, engineers …, distributors, banks, lawmakers and others how to increase the resource productivity of goods and services (dematerialisation). The … activities from resource use. The brochure describes in seven steps how to gain more resource productivity. It provides several …

We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per … productivity. …

and 2018 for 32 countries in Africa, to examine the causal relationship between firm productivity, innovation, and … financial development. We show evidence that firm innovation significantly and positively affects firm productivity. We also … show the mediating role of well-developed financial markets on productivity. In a well-developed financial market, the …

of productive resources, which in turn increase aggregate productivity and lead to a higher standard of living. I present …