activities in many developed countries. Asian countries are heavily involved in the export of manufactures. Australia typifies … the problems faced by the developed countries. How should Australia respond? Should it attempt to isolate itself from Asia …

Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity … growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). The authors use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate …

services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for … had significant, positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and … in the aggregate index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms …

The authors investigate the relationship between the productivity of African manufacturing firms and their access to … to calculate the total factor productivity of firms. The Enterprise Surveys also contain unique measures of firms' access … firm productivity and service performance in all three services sectors analyzed. The authors thus provide support for the …