"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 … drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …

"Drawing on the World Bank Investment Climate Assessment surveys, this paper investigates the relationship between firm … first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … countries in the sample. The exception is Morocco, whose various measures of firm-level productivity rank close to the ones of …

"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … entrepreneur in the innovation process. "--World Bank web site …

in terms of total factor productivity, although the difference is small. However, women entrepreneurs generate the same … capital constrained and concentrated in industries with small firms. "--World Bank web site …

productivity improvements historically have been driven primarily by capital-intensive investment, which often involves sector …

Poland. Second, chapter 2 provides key insights from the results by linking technology adoption with productivity, managerial … Sectoral approach to the drivers of productivity growth in Polish sectors. A firm-level perspective on technology adoption and … in Poland that describes the role that the service sector can play in spurring productivity growth …

productivity (value-added per worker). Hence, the Egyptian economy has not been able to generate high-earning jobs, at scale. Going …