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

and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study … economic growth in the 1980s. Our empirical results indicate that productivity was significantly enhanced by the recent …

improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …

US, China, and India reveals substantial losses in productivity and output due to the informational friction. Our … estimates for these losses range from 7-10% for productivity and 10-14% for output in China and India, and are smaller, though …We propose a theory linking imperfect information to resource misallocation and hence to aggregate productivity and …

estimates. To assess the importance of these assumptions, we examine two natural experiments: the recession in cotton textile … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since …