Sharma, Kishor; Jayasuriya, Sisira; Oczkowski, Edward - In: Oxford Development Studies 28 (2000) 2, pp. 205-222
The proposition that liberalization improves productivity growth is examined using data from Nepalese manufacturing-a least developed country that implemented trade liberalization during the 1980s. Productivity growth in general was negative in both the preand post-liberalization periods, but a...