contrast, domestic regulatory impediments to competition are not robustly correlated with product innovation. "--World Bank web …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … product, process, marketing, and organizational innovations should vary with firm size and competition. They then use a new … innovations the most common. As predicted by the model, firm size has a stronger positive effect, and competition a stronger …

their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first … obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate …

inequality in South Africa. It is our hope that South Africa will continue, and possibly expand, using the World Bank vast body …