The recovery from the current deep recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will require raising productivity through … competition, firms face weak incentives to become more productive. Sizeable shares of labour and capital are trapped in low-productivity … by high trade barriers that have precluded Brazil from the opportunities that an increasingly integrated world economy …

Brazil spends around 15% of GDP on different social benefits, but within these expenditures, different benefits have … social security benefits in Brazil. …

services to sustain productivity gains and international competitiveness. The areas with the largest potential for regulatory …, telecoms and financial services. Reforms targeting services that add value by favouring productivity and quality enhancements …

This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their … factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …

Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace … - international trade in intermediate inputs - for multi-factor productivity growth using a range of cross-country industry-level data … sources. We find that greater participation in GVCs is associated with faster domestic productivity growth at the industry …