-- 4. Policy reform and Ugandan export competitiveness -- 5. Becoming an exporter of manufactures -- 6. Trade … liberalisation and export diversification in Nepal -- 7. Liberalisation and the manufacturing sector -- 8. Small enterprise …

The definition and measurement of productivity in services raises important conceptual, methodological and strategic … problems. This book aims to provide a critical review of the main debates on productivity in the domain of services. The first … part examines the theoretical consequences of services specificities on the concept of productivity and reviews the …

This book explores the relationship between exports and productivity. Whilst a body of research indicates that … exporters have superior productivity to non-exporters, received wisdom suggests that this is because productive firms became … exporting -- Export strategy and innovation -- Industry heterogeneity in learning by exporting -- Summary and conclusion …

1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The … sources of growth of US industries -- 4. Total factor productivity growth in Chinese industries, 1981-2000 -- 5. Growth … accounting and productivity analysis by 33 industrial sectors in Korea (1984-2002) -- 6. Industry-wide total factor productivity …

the region. Dr Timmer describes the manufacturing performance of five Asian countries since the 1960s: China, India … comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …

factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia …