for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

inclusive Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Modest investment rates despite attractive returns and low savings rates despite … inclusive growth, with special emphasis on the issues of savings and investment …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

This paper looks at firm-level evidence on the African business environment from surveys undertaken for Investment …-floor" productivity, and show that this is partly due to business environment-related losses. The surveys also show the importance of high … indirect costs in further depressing the "net" productivity of African firms relative to those in other regions. Reforms are …

commercial and investment climate factors that may affect enterprises' actual or perceived costs and risks. Both water and …

's International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) for over a decade. In fact, IFC and MIGA … supporting private investment and development impact in Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations (FCS) and identifies key factors … constraining private investment in FCS and possible trade-offs that practitioners and policy-makers need to consider. Based on its …

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 …

"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm …-level technical efficiency and the investment climate for 22 developing economies and eight manufacturing industries. The authors … first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical …