Caribbean Region"--World Bank web site …

the link between trade and productivity"--World Bank web site …"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … set of goods exported by each sampled country relative to the world. It is a theoretically sound index which is consistent …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth … Asian growth experience, these gains were stimulated by stellar improvements in technological capacity. "--World Bank web …

sufficient investment certainty. …

drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …"This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and … 100 countries around the world. The literature that has analyzed this data provides evidence that a good business climate …

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

and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

panel growth regressions. This paper--a product of the Growth and Investment Team, Development Research Group--is part of a … larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …