small firms. Measures to boost the productivity of micro and small firms in general will both help overall economic growth …

facilitate growth and productivity and providing an enabling environment for women's entrepreneurship by expanding women … productivity of small informal firms. Using data from firm surveys, national household surveys, and qualitative data from focus … groups, the study conducts a gender analysis of formality and productivity in six different sectors in Bolivia. The findings …

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 …

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 …

"It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliche to say so. This …

productivity growth is estimated drawing on corporate financial data from manufacturing firms included in the AMADEUS database …. Lastly, the paper decomposes firm productivity growth and ranks the relative impact of changes in these six aspects of the …"This paper presents new evidence on the causal links between changes in the business environment and firm productivity …

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 …