"The authors' analysis of manufacturing plants sampled from India's major industrial centers shows large productivity …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current … exports on total factor productivity. Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries …

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …