productivity in the sector. This study seeks to investigate further possible factors contributing to low-productivity including … improve productivity through mutually reinforcing actions. Possible interventions include: a transition support program and …

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

"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and … 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 …

productivity growth. However, this approach is based on strong assumptions about national labor markets. The author shows that when … these assumptions are relaxed, regional adjusted wage growth is a better measure of regional productivity growth than … growth to proxy for productivity growth leads to misleading results. "--World Bank web site …