the main sources of the improved productivity growth in wholesale and retail trade including the adoption of productivity …Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant … wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked improvements in productivity performance over the 1990s. The paper examines …

This paper surveys the economic literature on the links between finance, law and growth in the Central and Eastern … based on an adequate legal system it can positively contribute to economic growth. However, the financial system in CEE …

rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …

this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …

changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into … human capital productivity and pushing the economy to sustained growth: an industrial revolution. Allowing also for a …

institutions also influences economic growth and the ability of a country to attract trade and foreign direct investment …